23 Facts I bet you didn't know about GOOGLE!!

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, and was formally incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. You know there's more to something than meets the eye when such a massively successful company has such a simple layout though, and I mean that in the best way possible. Google has always done things a little bit differently, and that works to keep things fresh, immersive and consistently progressive.

Here are some Google facts you may not know!

1. Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that google has never seen before.

2. Google was originally called "Backrub".

3. In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million Excite turned them down.

4. The first Google Doodle was dedicated to the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders in 1998.

5. Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.

6. Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.

7. Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.

8. Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.

9. Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.

10. Google's first tweet ever was "I'm feeling lucky" written in binary code.

11. Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.

12. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled "googol", which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

13. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.

14. The domain Googlesucks.com is owned by Google.

15. Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.

16. https://www.google.com/mars/ offers visible imagery view, infrared and elevation views of the planet Mars.

17. The total size of Google Earth's database is over 20 Petabytes.

18. When Gmail was introduced by Google with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB.

19. Google takes over 200 factors into account to deliver the best results for any query in a fraction of a second.

20. Facebook's first annual Hacker Cup Coding challenge was won by a programmer at Google.

21. Google owns many domains to cover mistypes
such as: Gooogle, Gogle, Googel etc.

22. Google offers employees free condoms that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have the phrase "I'm Feeling Lucky!" printed on them. 

23. In 2015, Google dropped their old motto "Don't Be Evil."

Google has turned into so much more than just a search engine, bringing out innovative ideas and trying out new things on almost a daily basis. It's hard to imagine where they'll venture next, though I'm more curious to know what the next Google Doodle is going to be!