Today we brings to you 20 curious facts about the biggest multinational corporation specializing in the Internet related services and products you use every day – about Google.
1. Google hires a flock of 200 goats regularly to chew away the grass in their lawns rather than using land-mowers.
It’s a low carbon principled approach: they prefer goats to noisy mowers polluting the air.
2. This is a Google Streetview Camel (Yes, it’s real).
Does the camel get its salary?
3. A Dutch archaeologist found a lost castle they had stopped looking for 20 years ago, using Google Earth.
It’s just one of many discoveries made with help of Google maps.
4. Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
You didn’t even suspect that the traffic flow shown on the map is an accurate real-time display of numerous Android phones currently attempting to make the same trek.
5. In 1997, Yahoo turned down the offer to acquire Google for only $1 million. Today Google is worth $360-410 billion.
We wonder how would Google run by Yahoo look like?
6. Research suggests that about 1/20 of the activity on Google is simply just people spell-checking what they’ve written.
Don’t you do the same?
You should try this if you’ve never done. It’s pretty entertaining!
8. This tiny icon was found on Google Maps. Zoom in, you might not believe what you’ll find!
There is a tragic and beautiful story behind that image of an airplane.
9. This is what the Google offices looked like in 1998.
What they have today is a great example of dedication and reasonable entrepreneurship.
10. If you search for “elgooG” on Google, it will take you to a Google website that is completely backwards.
You will actually come to the place you tried to find.
11. On April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office. It was not a joke.
Probably the joke was to release one on April 1st.
12. If you Google “tilt” or “askew”, the screen will tilt slightly.
Now you’ll be having fun like a kid trying this again and again, sharing this fact with friends.
13. Google Chrome lets you move multiple tabs at once.
It’s a useful tip for those who often has dozens of them open in the browser.
14. Using ‘~’ before a word in Google searches includes synonyms of that word in your search.
Soemtimes Google search can be a bit fuzzy, instead of “Bob” you are looking for, it will show you “Robert. If you just want Bob, +Bob is a better bet – Google won’t try to look for synonyms.
15. Suggestion: The Google self-driving car should have an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button that drives you to a random location.
It’s pretty fascinating to know nothing of how it might end for you
16. Google misses out on an estimated $110 million a year from searches that bypass advertising by clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
The most costly button ever?
17. “Jesus” stands second to “Justin Bieber” as the most Google’d person ever.
That’s rather disturbing and sad, don’t you think so?
18. Google files patent for contact lenses with built-in camera.
Taking pictures with an eye? Damn, yeah!
19. A Russian girl once caught her boyfriend cheating after seeing him with another girl using street view on Google Maps.
Alarm! Google is spying on us! Your private life is not a secret anymore.
20. If you type in any flight number into Google you can see exactly where the plane is.
Think harder upon it, we find it a bit scary…
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