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TOP 10 FACTS OF "GOOGLE"

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

1] The first Google computer storage was built with Lego's.

2] Larry and Sergey's private planes have runways in NASA, where no other planes are allowed to land.

3] Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com .

4] There's a rotated version of Google known as 'Google Mirror', which shows everything in a mirrored avatar
It might sound like just a fun and pointless add on, but it was actually useful in circumventing the Great Firewall in China that banned Google.

5] Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer

Google is now worth more than $300 billion. That's got to sting.

6] Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct.

7] Thanks to Google Instant, you can't actually use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button anymore

'Google Instant' starts searching for whatever you type as soon as you type it, thereby leaving no time or possibility to click that button. The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button apparently cost the company $110 million every year, because it would bypass all ads to go to the top search immediately.

8] The first ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998

It came about when Larry and Sergey visited the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. It was added to the homepage to let users know they were out of office and couldn't fix technical issues like a server crash.