Some 50 Facts About Google

50 Amazing Facts and Figures About Google
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Categories: Google, Search

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Google began as a research project in 1996
Google.com domain went online in 1997
The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking  up to much time from their research in 1999
The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated
Google incorporated in 1998
30 million pages indexed in 1998
1 billion pages indexed in 2000"


Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
Acquired Blogger in 2003
Adsense launched in 2003
Gmail launched in 2004
Google IPO in 2004
8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion
1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
Android announced in 2007
Chrome launched in 2008
1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million


It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
7.2 billion daily page views
87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
Google’s global search market share is 85%
Daily visitors to Google is 620 million
Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1
Revenue in 2000 was $19 million
Profit in 200 was a loss of $14 million
In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion
In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion
97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising
Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was $85

Stock price in 2010 was $535
Over 19,000 employees
37% are research staff
37% are sales staff
A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google
45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta
YouTube market share is 39.4%
270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
146 million Gmail users
Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites
400,000 new Android devices are activated every day
100 million activated Android devices
200,000 Apps available for the Android
4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market

Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010
The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005

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