12 Fun Facts You Should Know About Google

Nathan Johnson Published 08/15/2014

All hail our new supreme overlords. Who might that be?

1.
They have a dinosaur! Yup! A dino's skeleton was found near their building in Mountain View, so Google has erected a giant t-rex skeleton and named it "Stan" in its honor. A powerful name for a powerful hunter.
2.
Last year Google made 55.5 billion in advertising, which is about 90 of their profit.
3.
One time, the daughter of an employee wrote to Google to ask if her father could have the day off for his birthday. They gave him the whole week!
4.
Google has photographed and posted 5 million miles of road for Google Street View.
5.
Sometimes Google uses the help of some hungry goats to keep their lawns in shape.
6.
Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, including gooogle.com, gogle.com, and googlr.com. They also own 466453.com which is Google spelled out on the phone.
7.
The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs the company 110 million a year.
8.
Six billion hours of video are viewed each month on YouTube, which is owned by Google. That's about an hour for each person on earth.
9.
Google is a dog company, or so says their official code of conduct. They say they like cats, but due to the amount of pooches roaming their offices, they warn that their kitty friends might feel uncomfortable.
10.
Right now there are 2 million Google searches going on per second.
11.
The Google homepage loads the fastest out of any other site, which is why many people use it to test their connection.
12.
Google has added the Cherokee language into Gmail. Wado Google!

1.
They have a dinosaur! Yup! A dino's skeleton was found near their building in Mountain View, so Google has erected a giant t-rex skeleton and named it "Stan" in its honor. A powerful name for a powerful hunter.
2.
Last year Google made 55.5 billion in advertising, which is about 90 of their profit.
3.
One time, the daughter of an employee wrote to Google to ask if her father could have the day off for his birthday. They gave him the whole week!
4.
Google has photographed and posted 5 million miles of road for Google Street View.
5.
Sometimes Google uses the help of some hungry goats to keep their lawns in shape.
6.
Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, including gooogle.com, gogle.com, and googlr.com. They also own 466453.com which is Google spelled out on the phone.
7.
The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs the company 110 million a year.
8.
Six billion hours of video are viewed each month on YouTube, which is owned by Google. That's about an hour for each person on earth.
9.
Google is a dog company, or so says their official code of conduct. They say they like cats, but due to the amount of pooches roaming their offices, they warn that their kitty friends might feel uncomfortable.
10.
Right now there are 2 million Google searches going on per second.
11.
The Google homepage loads the fastest out of any other site, which is why many people use it to test their connection.
12.
Google has added the Cherokee language into Gmail. Wado Google!

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