1. Google was originally called “Backrub”.

1. Google was originally called “Backrub”.
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2. When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$ 1000 per month until they turn 19.
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3. Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
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4. Every day 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.
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5. Google hired a camel to create the street view of a desert.
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6. Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.
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7. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button costs Google US$ 110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads.
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8. Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.
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9. Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April fool’s day prank.
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10. On April fool’s day of 2007, Google sent an Email out to its employees warning that a python was loose in the facilities. It was not a joke.
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11. Google first tweet ever was “I’m Feeling Lucky” written in binary code.
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12. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled “Googol”, which refers to the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
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13. Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states that they are a dog company.
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14. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%.
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15. The first Google doodle was dedicated to the “Burning man festival” attended by Google founders in 1998.