1. The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide.
2.Google began as a research project in 1996
3.Google.com domain went online in 1997
4.The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
5.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
6.The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated
7.Google incorporated in 1998
8. 30 million pages indexed in 1998
9. 1 billion pages indexed in 2000
10. Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
11. Acquired Blogger in 2003
12. Adsense launched in 2003
13. Gmail launched in 2004
14. Google IPO in 2004
15. 8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
16. Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion
17. 1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
18. Android announced in 2007
19. 1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
20. It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
21. Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
22. 7.2 billion daily page views
23. 87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
24. Google’s global search market share is 85%
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