Top 10 Interesting and funny facts about Google

Google has 2.5 trillion searches per year worldwide.

Google's original name was Backrub.

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Google's search technology is called PageRank.

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Google's first tweet read: "I'm lucky" in binary.

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The Google home page is available in 80 languages.

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33% of all Google searches come from a smartphone

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Google is derived from the word Googol

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Google has about 90% of the global market share

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On September 15, 1997, the Google.com domain was registered

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Google tried to sell its search engine to Yahoo for $1 million in 1997.

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