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8 Very Interesting facts about Google

Posted by: Daniel Lew , 13 Oct 2009 Internet
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Take a look on the inside and behind the scenes!

1. The size of googleplex / google headquarters is 129619 square meters, or 32.03 acres

2. They have their own Restaurant with Organic Meals that are served to all employees FREE.

3. They have 200,000 computers at their headquarters to cater for the massive amount of bandwidth needed to generate and support the millions of users online.

4. After Yahoo Secured a deal with AOL in 2004 (but without signing) to win the bid to take over the European Market, Google found out and flew in their private jet on the same day all the way to UK to convince AOL otherwise and gave them an offer they couldn't refuse. Yahoo refused to get into a bidding war and let them get the better of it and win.

5. The staff at Google are allowed 1 day a week to work at whatever interests them, and can be anything ranging from developing their own commercial website to whatever they like. The founders Page and Brin see this as expanding their knowledge and allowing this keeps the staff enthusiastic.

6. Google's first webpage ever recorded in the way back machine in November 1998, with the home page not having a logo.

7. Google invented a special scanner to digitize 15 million library books and have them published on their engine.

8. There is still to this day no resolution on click fraud.All of these facts were found and put together after reading - The Google Story Book

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what ? Wow, 200,000 computers?, now that is some serious storage.
24 Dec, 2008
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Awesome !!
30 Dec, 2008
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Wow!!Great facts indeed! I never knew abut these things!
17 Sep, 2009
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Peter John II Yap I am totally enjoy reading facts like this. This is something new to me. I think the google headquarters or googleplex is extremely wide space for every people or employess to accomodate. The employees are able to have organic meals when they very hungry. I am really amaze of 200,000 storage of computers because more employees will have benefit for them. So, facts are really important.
20 Oct, 2009
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InXtinct Buddy The facts are really simple and with some really high contents and ideas with it. I really enjoy reading this here as it just make me sink in the facts about google. Post more like this so let other enjoy.
23 Oct, 2009
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Dylan Haddock Wow. I love that they are serving organic meals. Are they by any chance in California?
08 Dec, 2009
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