Interesting facts about Google.

Google is everyone's favorite search engine. We use it everyday to search many things and even to check our Internet Speed !! Every great company has a story behind its legend. Here are some interesting facts about Google, which you would love to know :

1. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

2. The name Google was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for Googol.

3. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

5. 57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.

6. 620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.

7. Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.

8. Google’s index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.

9. When Google introduced their improved spell checker seen as “Did you mean ? ”, it doubled their traffic and soon the developers discovered that the ideal placement was at the bottom of the search results.