Shocking Facts About Google

The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, also know as the “google guys” while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first started as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and was launched on August 19 2004 publicly. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024.

                 (Talk about getting lucky tenants. In 1998, Susan Wojcicki rented her garage to two Stanford students - you know who they are. That turned out to be a life-changing decision for Susan - it got her a key early job at Google which translated to a top executive position.
                       In 2006, Google bought the house which had become a tourist attraction (the busloads of people who show up to take pictures were so annoying that Google decided not to publish the address)

It has been estimated that Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world(estimation.nobody knows the exact figure), and processes over one billion search requestsand about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.97%-99% of Google's revenue is derived from its advertising programs

 

                               Google's original homepage had a simple design since its founders were not experienced  in HTML, the language for designing web pages.

• Daily Page Views for Google.com: 7.2 billion
• Monthly Worldwide searches on Google Sites: 87.8 billion
• Daily Visitors to Google.com: 620 million
• Google Global Search Market Share: 85.78%
• The amount of data processed by Google on daily basis crosses 20 peta Bytes (PB)
• Google.com’s Global Website Ranking: 1