Here are top 28 facts amazing of Google

1. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
2. A single Google search requires more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.
3. Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless as criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven’t gone to college.
4. Google was originally called”Backrub”.
5. In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down.
6. The first Google Doodle was dedicated to the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders in 1998.
7. If you search for “askew” in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
8. When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.
9. Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
10. Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.
11. Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.
12. The “I’m feeling lucky”button costs Google US$110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads.
13. Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the prime time revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
14. Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.
15. Google’s First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO.
16. Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.
17. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled “googol”, which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
18. Google has been acquiring 2 companies per month since 2010.
19. Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
20. Google.com/Weddings is a little known free service to plan your wedding.
21. The total size of Google Earth’s database is over 20 Petabytes.
22. When G-mail was introduced by Google with an unbelievable 1 GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2 MB.
23. In 2014, about 89% of Google’s US$66 billion in revenue came from advertising.
24. Google takes over 200 factors into account to deliver the best results for any query in a fraction of a second.
25. Steve Jobs once called Google to tell them the yellow gradient in the second “O” of their logo wasn’t quite right.
26. In 2010, Nicaragua accidentally invaded Costa Rica because of a mistake in Google Maps.
27. Google Maps’ Street view includes 360-degree views of the Mount Everest base camp.
28. You can see underwater sea life, coral reefs and wrecks using Google Maps.