Interesting Facts About Google!

Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California.
Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California.They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page.

Google Facts :

1. The name 'Google' derived from 'googol' which refers to the number represented by followed by 100 zeros.
   
2. As of August 2007, Google is the most used search engine on the web with a 53.6% market share, ahead of Yahoo! (19.9%) and Live Search (12.9%).
   
3. It indexed over 25 billion web pages, 1.3 billion images & received 400 million queries/day in 2006.
   
4. Google has around 450,000 servers placed in clusters at 2000 data centers around the world.
   
5. All the servers consumes about 20mw of power, costing around $2 million per month in electricity charge.
   
6. Google uses its trademarked algorithm (Page rank algorithm) to assign rank to web pages.
   
7. It uses a Database (distributed storage system) called 'BigTable' for managing petabytes of data.