20 years ago, Americans Sergey Brin (45 years old) and Larry Page (45 years old) changed the digital world forever by creating Google, a company that wanted to tidy up the messy world of the global web.
What started as a doctoral project on a university campus later became one of the largest companies in the world, capable not only of providing the internet search service, but also many and numerous online services, technological products and applications that everyone now uses.
According to statistics, Google searches in about 2 Trillion (2016) in a year with 100 billion searches every month.
Google is used by around 1.17 billion people (2013).
Google's Android operating system has two billion active users (2017) and is installed on 88% of smartphones.
Youtube is the second most used smartphone application in the world (after Facebook), used by 71% of all owners of a smartphone (2017).
These are just some of the numbers that make Google's evolution and growth great in the last 20 years and that we are going to see in detail.
READ ALSO: Best Google services: the most useful, the least known and the failures
- Google indexed 26 million web pages when it was launched in 1998.
Now, index 130 trillion web pages .
- When Google was launched, it could crawl around 30-50 pages per second.
Today it can process millions of pages per second.
- Google's first office space was a rented garage in Menlo Park, California.
Today Google has more than 70 offices spread across 50 countries.
- Google answered 10, 000 search queries on a day when it was in beta in 1998.
Today, Google handles more than 100 billion searches every month, over 3.5 billion search requests per day, equivalent to 1.2 trillion searches per year.
- Google hired its first employee in September 1998 and had 1, 907 employees on March 31, 2004.
Today, Google has more than 88, 000 employees (2017).
- Deja.com (from which the modern Google Groups is derived) was the first acquisition of Google which, since 2001 has made more than 100 acquisitions.
The most expensive was Motorola in 2011, then resold to Lenovo in 2014.
Among the most important acquisitions, YouTube, Doubleclick (Google's main source of income) and Waze cannot be forgotten.
- When Google went public on Wall Street on August 19, 2004, the stock opened at $ 85 per share.
Today, Google shares are worth more than $ 1, 200, increasing more than 13 times in value.
- Google had a market capitalization of $ 23 billion in 2004.
The current market capitalization is just over $ 760 billion (third behind Apple and Amazon).
- The company reported revenue of $ 961.9 million in 2003 while Google's revenue exceeded $ 110 billion in 2017 (nearly all revenue comes from advertising).
- The assets of the two founders, Page and Brin, are estimated at around $ 55 billion each.
- Google acquired Android in 2005 and today there are two billion activated devices and 3 million mobile applications are present on the store.
- Google started Street View in 2007 by photographing the streets of the world.
Since then, Google has managed to photograph cities and towns from almost all over the world.
- The Google Chrome browser launched in 2008 (10 years ago) quickly became the most used browser in the world with 60% of users compared to other browsers.
- YouTube had around 20 million unique monthly visitors in 2006 when it was acquired by Google.
Today Youtube has about 7 billion videos, viewed by 30 million people every day.
- Google Translate supports the translation of more than 100 languages, including many dialects and invented languages such as Klingon.
- Alphabet and its subsidiary, Google, made 214 acquisitions from 2001 to 2017, with an average of one company per month.
- The market value of Alphabet's share has increased significantly from around $ 50 in 2004 to over $ 1000 in 2018
Here are some of the most interesting facts about Google, the company and the search engine.
- The initial name of Google, in 95, was Backrub, which later became Google in 97.
- The name Google derives from the word googol, a mathematical term that represents a one followed by 100 zeros.
- In the beginning, Google's digital archives were stored in 10 4 GB hard drives, placed inside a case made of Lego (the Lego Duplo big to be precise), for easier expansion.
The case is now on display at Stanford university, while the Google index currently occupies something like 100 million GB of data.
- Google launched its first homepage in 1998 with an exclamation mark like that of "Yahoo!" one year after registering your google.com domain name.
- MentalPlex, the mind-reading ability for research, was Google's first joke for April 2000, inviting users to watch an animated image and project the mental image of what they want search on Google.
- Yahoo! declined Google's offer to invest money in its search engine and, later, in 2002, Yahoo! offered $ 3 billion for the acquisition, rejected by Google.
- Google encourages its employees to work on their projects for 20% of their time.
This led to the emergence of AdSense, Google News, Gmail and Orkut.
- New Google employees are known as "Noogler", short for "New Googlers" and are easily recognizable by their multi-colored hats.
- Google's services suffered a 5-minute global outage in 2013, which led to a surprising 40% drop in global Internet traffic.
Some data source: //expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-a-gigantic-list-of-google-stats-and-facts/
READ ALSO: Google's best jokes and tricks with the Google Easter Eggs
What started as a doctoral project on a university campus later became one of the largest companies in the world, capable not only of providing the internet search service, but also many and numerous online services, technological products and applications that everyone now uses.
According to statistics, Google searches in about 2 Trillion (2016) in a year with 100 billion searches every month.
Google is used by around 1.17 billion people (2013).
Google's Android operating system has two billion active users (2017) and is installed on 88% of smartphones.
Youtube is the second most used smartphone application in the world (after Facebook), used by 71% of all owners of a smartphone (2017).
These are just some of the numbers that make Google's evolution and growth great in the last 20 years and that we are going to see in detail.
READ ALSO: Best Google services: the most useful, the least known and the failures
- Google indexed 26 million web pages when it was launched in 1998.
Now, index 130 trillion web pages .
- When Google was launched, it could crawl around 30-50 pages per second.
Today it can process millions of pages per second.
- Google's first office space was a rented garage in Menlo Park, California.
Today Google has more than 70 offices spread across 50 countries.
- Google answered 10, 000 search queries on a day when it was in beta in 1998.
Today, Google handles more than 100 billion searches every month, over 3.5 billion search requests per day, equivalent to 1.2 trillion searches per year.
- Google hired its first employee in September 1998 and had 1, 907 employees on March 31, 2004.
Today, Google has more than 88, 000 employees (2017).
- Deja.com (from which the modern Google Groups is derived) was the first acquisition of Google which, since 2001 has made more than 100 acquisitions.
The most expensive was Motorola in 2011, then resold to Lenovo in 2014.
Among the most important acquisitions, YouTube, Doubleclick (Google's main source of income) and Waze cannot be forgotten.
- When Google went public on Wall Street on August 19, 2004, the stock opened at $ 85 per share.
Today, Google shares are worth more than $ 1, 200, increasing more than 13 times in value.
- Google had a market capitalization of $ 23 billion in 2004.
The current market capitalization is just over $ 760 billion (third behind Apple and Amazon).
- The company reported revenue of $ 961.9 million in 2003 while Google's revenue exceeded $ 110 billion in 2017 (nearly all revenue comes from advertising).
- The assets of the two founders, Page and Brin, are estimated at around $ 55 billion each.
- Google acquired Android in 2005 and today there are two billion activated devices and 3 million mobile applications are present on the store.
- Google started Street View in 2007 by photographing the streets of the world.
Since then, Google has managed to photograph cities and towns from almost all over the world.
- The Google Chrome browser launched in 2008 (10 years ago) quickly became the most used browser in the world with 60% of users compared to other browsers.
- YouTube had around 20 million unique monthly visitors in 2006 when it was acquired by Google.
Today Youtube has about 7 billion videos, viewed by 30 million people every day.
- Google Translate supports the translation of more than 100 languages, including many dialects and invented languages such as Klingon.
- Alphabet and its subsidiary, Google, made 214 acquisitions from 2001 to 2017, with an average of one company per month.
- The market value of Alphabet's share has increased significantly from around $ 50 in 2004 to over $ 1000 in 2018
Here are some of the most interesting facts about Google, the company and the search engine.
- The initial name of Google, in 95, was Backrub, which later became Google in 97.
- The name Google derives from the word googol, a mathematical term that represents a one followed by 100 zeros.
- In the beginning, Google's digital archives were stored in 10 4 GB hard drives, placed inside a case made of Lego (the Lego Duplo big to be precise), for easier expansion.
The case is now on display at Stanford university, while the Google index currently occupies something like 100 million GB of data.
- Google launched its first homepage in 1998 with an exclamation mark like that of "Yahoo!" one year after registering your google.com domain name.
- MentalPlex, the mind-reading ability for research, was Google's first joke for April 2000, inviting users to watch an animated image and project the mental image of what they want search on Google.
- Yahoo! declined Google's offer to invest money in its search engine and, later, in 2002, Yahoo! offered $ 3 billion for the acquisition, rejected by Google.
- Google encourages its employees to work on their projects for 20% of their time.
This led to the emergence of AdSense, Google News, Gmail and Orkut.
- New Google employees are known as "Noogler", short for "New Googlers" and are easily recognizable by their multi-colored hats.
- Google's services suffered a 5-minute global outage in 2013, which led to a surprising 40% drop in global Internet traffic.
Some data source: //expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-a-gigantic-list-of-google-stats-and-facts/
READ ALSO: Google's best jokes and tricks with the Google Easter Eggs
