A Closer Look at Google

A CLOSER LOOK AT - GOOGLE JUST HOW BIG iS IT, REALLY? |BACKGROUNDI WHAT'S IN A NAME? 1,000, GOOGL EPLEX: The "Google" is said to be a spelling mistake of the word googol, or O00.000.000.000,000, 000,000.000.000,000 name given to Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, CA 10100 000.000,000,000,000. Googolplex (which is 10 to the power of googol) is a number so large that astronomer Carl FUN FACT! Google once rented about 200 goats for a week to keep the grass at the Googleplex trimmed. Sagan had said that it could not be written down in the space of the known universe. 15 GOOGLE WAS İNCORPORATED ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1998 AND CELEBRRTED ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR. \'gü•gel\ v. to use the Google INITIRLLY, Google objected to people search engine to obtain information using their brand name as a verb, but has about something on the Internet since given up on stopping it. See also: goo•gled, goo•gling (HEY, IT'S FREE PUBLICITY, RIGHT?) | FINANCIALLY SPEAKING SERGEY BRİN AND LARRY PAGE $50+ BILLION: GOOGLE'S REVENUE FOR 2012, 97% $24.9B NET WORTH $24.4B NET WORTH OF WHICH CAM E FROM ADVERTISING DOLLARS GOOGLE FOUND ERS Larry Page and Sergey Brin own * ONLY 16% * of the company's shares. When this happened, FUN Page and Brin's joint net worth was estimated to have risen by an extra FACT! $5.9B IN ONE DAY! 9/4/1998: 8/2004 10/18/2013 Google was incorporated Google's IPO price per share is $85 Price per share reaches $1000 WE'RE IN THE MONEY Many of these 900-1000 ORIGINAL "X0OGLERS" GOOGLE EMPLOYEES As of late Jan 2008, it have founded new startups, or backed other companies such became millionaires on was estimated that about paper (shares & stock 1/3 OF THE FIRST 500 original employees had left the company. options) when the as Twitter & "green" company went public. sports car maker Tesla. | THE WHOLE ENCHİLADA A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME OF THE MANY PRODUCTS & SERVICE S GOOGL E HAS TO OFFER: O 191 MİLLION PEOPLE O VISITED GOOGLE'S VARIOUS SITES JUST IN NOV 2012 ALONE ??? 12.48B searches were made by American users in Sep 2013, accounting for about 67% of the total U.S. search market. 1.2 67% SEARCH TRILLION SEARCHES WORLDWIDE IN 2012 TOP SE ARCH ES FOR 2012: ENGINE WHITNEY HOUSTON GANGNAM STYLE IPAD OLYMPICS HOW MUCH DATA İS GOOGLE STORING? AT 1.2 TRİLLION SERRCHES, CARBON FOOTPRINT USING GOOGLE'S ESTIMATE OF .2G/SERRCH, GOOGLE THE AMOUNT OF Co, EMITTED BY GOOGLE IS EQUIVALENT TO 19,555.5 CLONES 100 Million GB 4,000 feet OF THE LARGEST RFRICAN ELEPHANT EVER RECORDED BURJ KHALIFA BUİLDİNG, DÜBRİ 2,296 feet THATS 528 MILLION POUNDS! EMPİRE STRTE BUİLDİNG, NY 1,454 feet IF 1 TERABYTE (1000GB) = RPPROX. 1/2 İNCH In 2013, worldwide internet traffic 140% dropped by 40% when certain Google services went offline for GOOGLE PAYS MOZILLA $300M per year to be the default search engine for their Firefox browser. ONLY 5 MINUTES Of course, that may change given increased use of Google's Chrome browser. 5 BILLION CLICKS PER DAY (2012) GOOGLE ANDROID PLUS PHONES +1 465M MONTHLY USERS (2012) SMARTPHONES running Google's Android mobile operating system 8* were sold in 2012 VS THATS 66% 135 ONE of the world smartphone market! MILLION BILLION GOOGLE'S STREET VIEW MAPS, STARTED IN 2007, COVERS OVER 5 MİLLION MİLES OF UNIQUE ROADWAY. STREET VIEW USES CAR, TRIKES, TROLLEYS AND SNOWMOBİLES. GOOGLE GOOGL E MAPS (satellite, aerial and street view) has now passed 20 petabytes (about 21M gigabytes) of storage. MAPS 20 You Tube THE NUMBER OF HOURS OF YOUTUBE VIDEO THAT FOUR BİLLION WERE IEWED MONTHLY, İNTERNET ON AVERAGE, IN 2012. VIDEO About 2.5M hours of "news" videos were uploaded to YouTube in 2012. If someone were to watch every single video non-stop 24x7, it would take them over 285 years. 1.8 BİLLİON 10/24/2012 FUN FACT! NUMBER OF VIEWS FOR When Felix Baumgartner set PSY'S OFFICIAL "GANGNAM several new skydiving records STYLE" VIDEO To DATE by jumping from a helium balloon about 24 miles above Earth, the video livestream was watched by 8M 900K over 8M people concurrently - a record for YouTube! IS GOOGLE THE KING OF THE INTERNET? While not number one in every category, the sheer size and scope of their reach assures them a place at the head of the pack. 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