14 Interesting Facts Most People Don’t Know About Google

Google has entered every moment of our lives, helping us even with the smallest issue we wonder about. I have compiled for you the little-known features and surprising facts about this giant database that we can access whenever we want.

1) 16% of Google searches are searches that have never been done before.

2) In 1999, Google’s founders tried to sell it to Excite for $1 million. But Excite rejected them.

3) Google earns $20 million every year from advertising revenues alone. This figure is more than the prime hours of CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX combined.

4) 2 million searches are made on Google every minute.

5) Google has surpassed Facebook and holds the title of being the most visited website in the world.

6) The name Google was found by chance. Instead of the word “googol” with 100 zeros, “Google” was written by mistake and was left that way afterwards.

7) On August 16, 2013, Google crashed for 5 minutes and internet traffic decreased by 40% during those minutes.

8) A single search on Google requires more computing power than sending Apollo 11 to the Moon.

9) In 2013, Google founded the anti-aging company Calico, whose aim is to save people from death.

10) Google Maps calculates traffic by monitoring the speed of Android devices on the road.

11) You can translate all the sites you search on Google into the Klingons language in Star Trek.

12) Google Earth’s database is more than 20 Petabytes.

13) Steve Jobs said that the second “O” in the logo being yellow was not right for the logo.

14) You can see underwater coral reefs, underwater life and shipwrecks from Google Maps.