50 Amazing Google Facts and Figures

50 Amazing Google Facts and Figures
1. The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling ofthe word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the largequantities of information for people that it would provide.
2. Google began as a research projectin 1996
3. Google.com domain went online in 1997
4. The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
5. The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking up to much time from their research in 1999
6. The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated
7. Google incorporated in 1998
8. 30 million pages indexed in 1998
9. 1 billion pages indexed in 2000
10. Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
11. Acquired Blogger in 2003
12. Adsense launched in 2003
13. Gmail launched in 2004
14. Google IPO in 2004
15. 8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
16. Acquired YouTube in 2006 for$1.65 billion
17. 1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
18. Android announced in 2007
19. Chrome launched in 2008
20. 1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
21. It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
22. Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
23. 7.2 billion daily page views
24. 87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
25. Google’s global search market share is 85%
26. Daily visitors to Google is 620 million
27. Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1
28. Revenue in 2000 was $19 million
29. Profit in 200 was a loss of $14 million
30. In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion
31. In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion
32. 97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising
33. Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was$85
34. Stock price in 2010 was $535
35. Over 19,000 employees
36. 37% are research staff
37. 37% are sales staff
38. A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google
39. 45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta
40. YouTube market share is 39.4%
41. 270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
42. 146 million Gmail users
43. Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites
44. 400,000 new Android devices areactivated every day
45. 100 million activated Android devices
46. 200,000 Apps available for the Android
47. 4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market
48. Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
49. 33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010
50. The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005

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Interesting Human Body Facts.

- The largest cell in the human body is the female egg, and the smallest is the male sperm.
- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball (a bit bigger than a cricket ball).
- It takes food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
- The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
- Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate...they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!
- Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

*** You looked at your thumb... Didn't you?!! 

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February's special

-More than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine's Day each year.

-According to the condom company Durex, condom sales are highest around Valentine's Day, which are 20 percent to 30 percent higher than usual.

-This February has 4 perfect weeks of 4 days each. 

4 Sundays, 4 Mondays, 4 Tuesdays, 4 Wednesdays, 4 

Thursdays, 4 Fridays and 4 Saturdays.

Doesn't happen in any of the other months.

-News = North East West South.
-Chess = Chariot,Horse, Elephant, Soldiers.
-Cold = chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
-Joke = Joy of Kids Entertainment.
-Aim = Ambition in Mind.
-Date = Day and Time Evolution.
-Eat = Energy And Taste. Tea = Taste And Energy Admitted.
-Pen = Power Enriched in Nib.
-Smile = Sweet Memories In Lips Expression.
-Bye = Be with You Everytime.

-==SOLVE THIS==

Mr and Mrs Jonah went for a picnic. The couple has five sons and each son has seven daughters, who have three babies each.

In total, how many people went for the picnic?

-An alligator’s immune system can fight HIV.

-When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly 

discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero 

gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a 

decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero 

gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface, 

and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 

degrees Celsius.

where Russians used a pencil.

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Company Name Origin/Meaning.

1. Mercedes - Name of the daughter of the founder …
2. Nokia - Name of city and river in Finland.
3. Pepsi - Named from the digestive enzyme pepsin.
4. Honda - From the name of its founder Soichiro Honda …
5. Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound …
6. Maggi - Food company named after its founder, Julius Maggi … 
7. Suzuki - From the name of its founder, Michio Suzuki … 
8. Samsung - Meaning 'three stars' in Korean … 
9. Toyota - From the name of founder, Sakichi Toyoda …. . 
10. Yamaha - After Torakusu Yamaha, who founded the company 
11. Adidas - From the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler
(das).

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Weird fact of the day.

Fascinating Fact: Sperm is good for
the skin
The proteins in sperm have a
tightening effect on the skin. When
sperm is left to dry, the
evaporation of the water in it leaves
behind protein which can help to
reduce wrinkles. While this may be
an excellent anti-aging treatment,
the obvious downside is that you
have to walk around with sperm on
your face.

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 MANILA (PHILIPPINES): A remote southern Philippine town has gone into mourning over the death of the world's largest saltwater crocodile in captivity, even though it was blamed for the deaths of several villagers. 

Bunawan town plans to preserve the remains of the 1-ton crocodile, named Lolong, in a museum to keep tourists coming and stop the community from slipping back into obscurity, the mayor said Monday. 

Lolong was declared dead Sunday after being found floating on its back with a bloated stomach in a pond in an ecotourism park which had begun to draw tourists, revenue and development because of the immense reptile, Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said. 

"The whole town, in fact the whole province, is mourning," Elorde said. "My phones kept ringing because people wanted to say how affected they are." 

Wildlife experts will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death, he said. 

Guinness World Records had proclaimed it the largest saltwater crocodile in captivity last year, measuring the giant at 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches). The reptile took the top spot from an Australian crocodile that measured more than 5 meters (17 feet) and weighed nearly a ton. 

Estimated at more than 50 years old, the crocodile was named after a government environmental officer who died from a heart attack after traveling to Bunawan in Agusan del Sur province to help capture the beast. 

Even though Lolong was blamed for the deaths of several villagers over the years, Bunawan villagers grew to love the giant reptile because it came to symbolize the rich biodiversity of the marsh where it was captured. The vast complex of swamp forests, shallow lakes, lily-covered ponds and wetlands is home to many animals, including threatened species such as the Philippine hawk eagle. 

Various religious groups offered prayers Monday and spiritual leaders also planned to perform a tribal funeral rite, which involves butchering chickens and pigs to thank forest spirits for the fame and other blessings the crocodile has brought, Elordie said. 

The rite is to be held at the ecotourism park, where the reptile was a star attraction, drawing foreign tourists, scientists and wildlife journalists to Bunawan, a town of 37,000 people about 515 miles (830 kilometers) southeast of Manila. 

The crocodile's capture in September 2011 sparked celebrations in the town. It was caught with steel cable traps during a hunt prompted by the death of a child in 2009 and the later disappearance of a fisherman. Water buffalos have also been attacked by crocodiles in the area. 

About 100 people led by Elorde pulled the crocodile from a creek using ropes and then hoisted it by crane onto a truck. 

Philippine officials had planned to construct a road to the park to accommodate the growing number of tourists, Elorde said. 

He said Lolong will be preserved so tourists and villagers can continue to marvel at it. 

"I'd like them to see the crocodile that broke a world record and put our town on the map," Elorde said. 

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Deadly Facts.

1.Humans blink almost 1,000 times a day. That’s almost 5 minutes of blinking
2.The Earth slows down by approximately 5 milliseconds every year.
3.When the telephone was first introduced into Britain, written permission from the Queen was needed to make international calls.
4.When a new coin is designed, the design is tested them to ensure that they land on heads and tails an equal amount of times. 
5.A helicopter would not be able to take off or fly with an odd number of blades. Most helicopters have four blades.
6.If a human brain was saved onto hard drives, it would take up the whole of New Mexico, and would need 10,000 volts of electrical current.
7.A heart removed from a human body can continue to beat for up to three days.
8.While smoking may be bad for the lungs and heart, tobacco contains Nitrogentrioxide- a chemical that can help cure Polio.
9.Shirt collars came into use when one tailor accidentally added too much fabric to a shirt. The trend quickly caught on.
10.The human stomach is able to digest stainless steel, but the resulting blood poisoning would kill you.
11.Isaac Newton predicted the theory of Special Relativity long before Einstein; however, the papers were never published.
12.Google generates $691.27 per second!
Isn't it crazy? And the annual revenue is $21,800,000,000. If you have taken 5 seconds to read this post then Google would have already made around $3456.34.
13.The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’

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Some Deadly Facts.

1.Retired porn star Asia Carerra wrote the code for her website she built herself, and is a member of the high IQ club, Mensa International.
2.A man once named his 2 sons Winner and Loser. Loser was good at school and became a detective. Winner ended up homeless and in and out of jail.
3.Hitler once gave a medal to a man because he found his joke funny.
4.The average mobile phone contains more bacteria than a toilet seat.
5.A Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male.
6.Our memories are not that reliable. What we remember is usually altered by our emotions and other thoughts at that time.
7.Did you know that in St. Louis, Missouri, it is illegal for a fireman to rescue a woman wearing only a nightgown, In order for her to be rescued, she must be fully clothed!
8.Most of the laugh tracks you hear while watching television were recorded in the 1950’s which means a lot of the people you hear are dead.
9.Video games boost problem-solving skills, gamers absorb information quickly and make accurate decisions faster.
10.Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger. 

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Facts about FACEBOOK

Today is the Birthday of Facebook...On February 4, 2004 world's biggest addiction was launched. It turns 9th today.

They have 1 billion users, but that's not Facebook's only amazing statistic. There are a lot more, starting with a staggering 1.13 trillion likes. One point thirteen trillion likes, people. It's crazy. Here are the rest of their stats, compiled since the first day of Facebook:
Over 1.13 trillion likes

since launch in February 2009. Wow.
140.3 billion friend connections

to one billion total users. Is everyone connected to everyone or what, Kevin Bacon?
219 billion photos.

These are photos actually in the system, not including the deleted ones. They believe they have had 265 billion photos in their servers since fall 2005. Flickr is weeping.
17 billion location-tagged posts,

including check-ins as of September 10, 2012—since August 2010.
210,000 years of music played so far.

62.6 million songs that have been played 22 billion times. The most staggering fact about this: their music-listening app only started in September 2011 and this data is from September 11, 2012.

More useless but neat facts:

• Facebook says that the median age of the user is about 22 years.

• The top five countries, in alphabetical order, where people connected from since the 1 billion user record was achieved: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.

• Of that 1 billion, there are 600 million mobile users. Not bad.

Head? Spinning!

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Top facts of all time.

1.Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its actual value.

2.If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.

3.People tend to fear spiders more than death.

4.When you laugh while being tickled, what you are experiencing is actually a form of panic.

5.Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

6.The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on earth.

7.A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.

8.An elephant can die from a broken heart.

9.It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

10.2% of Earth's people have red hair.

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01.01.2013 Facts

1. The word “bride” is derived from an old English word meaning “cook.”
2. People that “feel smarter” when wearing glasses tend to become more studious and in turn, do better in school.
3.John F. Kennedy did not accept his presidential salary of $150,000 a year. Instead, he donated it to charity.
4. When cats hiss, they are instinctively reproducing the sounds of other dangerous animals such as snakes.
5. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” spent 741 weeks on the Billboard charts from 1973 to 1988 – Longer than any other album in history.

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