20 facts about Google, which you did not know

1. Google has got its name by mistake. The founders of the misspelled word "googol", means the number of one hundred zeros after one.

2. In 1999, the founders of Google is trying to sell his company owners directory of Internet resources Excite for $ 1 million, but the offer was rejected.

3. If the score into Google the word "askew", the text on the page displayed is slightly tilted to the right.

4. As you know, the Google logo changes over the holidays. For the first time it was changed in 1998 in honor of the annual festival of "burning man", which is held in the US state of Nevada.

5. When Google employees die, the company for 10 years pay half the salary of their spouses of deceased, and their children every month pay $ 1,000, until they are 19 years of age.

6. Google's plan to 2020 to scan all 129 million known unique books.

7. 16% of all search queries that Google receives each day administered first.

8. Google will hire a camel to stage a view of the street in the desert for its service Google Maps.

9. The button "I'm Feeling Lucky" ("I'm feeling lucky") cost Google $ 110 million a year. The fact is that when it is pressed users directly get to the page with the answers, avoiding advertisements and, consequently, the search service in these cases do not make money on advertising. Today "button luck" formally exists, but works in a different mode.

10. Google earns from advertising $ 20 billion a year - more than the major television channels, American CBS, NBC ABC and FOX combined.

11. Every minute, Google performs two million search queries.

12. "Google release" email service gmail earned 1 April 2004. Many people thought it was an April Fool's joke event - get a free email account, 1 GB at the time was unheard of luxury.

13. Leading developer of Firefox is now working in a team Google Chrome.

14. April 1, 2007, Google sent out to employees of its New York division electronic message warning that the building is a python. And it was not an April Fool's jokes.

15. The first entry that Google has posted on his page on the social network Twitter, were the words "I'm Feeling Lucky" ("I'm Feeling Lucky"), encoded in binary code.

16. The first storage unit used in Google, which had been collected from Lego.

17. Today, Google is developing a highly "intelligent" computer capable of programming itself.

18. Google - the most visited website in the world. In this regard, he surpassed even Facebook.

19. For the fourth consecutive year, Google holds the title of the most attractive companies for employment in the United States.

20. August 16, 2013 in a five-minute Google service failure occurred. In the five minutes of world Internet traffic dropped by 40 percent.