10 Facts About Google That Will Blow Your Mind

1. The famous www.google.com of today was once google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu, when it was in the testing phase and was working under the website of Stanford university.
   
   
2. Google search is available on 181 international domains (such as .co.in for India)
   
   
3. Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide.
   
   
4. 20% of queries are new to Google every day.
   
   
5. Google deals with more than 3 billion queries a day from all around the world returning results on an average of 0.25 seconds.
   
   
6. It runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world.
   
   
7. Google provides the number for the Suicide Prevention Hotline in any country when presented with the search terms “i want to die.”
   
   
8. Google makes changes to their search algorithm at an average of once every 17.5 hours
   
   
9. ”Google” is added as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2006.
   
   
10. That an Indian was instrumental in the formation of Google.
    

Ram Shriram

So when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford, they were just young twenty year olds with an idea of a search engine. They explained this idea to their professor who helped them meet some investors. A majority of them were not-so-impressed by this. Then, they stumbled upon this investor called Ram Shriram who also found it OK. But, he was impressed by their passion so without thinking much he handed them a cheque of 500,000 dollars.
Can you imagine the duo didn't even have a bank account at that time to deposit that cheque?

And then as they say “the rest is history".