Things You Never Knew About Google


Android

Before Andy Rubin sold Android to Google, WebTV founder Steve Perlman gave him an envelope with $10,000 to keep the company afloat. Now Rubin is Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content at Google.

Google Stats

Google processes over 20 petabyets (1 petabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) a day of user-generated data.

One click of the mouse allows the search engine to crunch up to 1 trillion pieces of information.

Over 1 trillion pages have been indexed so far on Google.

Google shares the largest network of languages interfaces: 72 to be exact including fictional ones such as Klingon, Pig Latin, Pirate, and even Elmer Fudd.

The YouTube

Before Google purchased YouTube, the co-founders, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim placed ads on Craigslist offering "hot" women $100 for every 10 videos they posted to the site.

Eric Schmidt

Former CEO, Eric Schmidt, once asked to have all his personal information removed from Google's index, but his request was denied as it violated the company's policy.

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