Google: Facts & FiguresAll you always wanted to know ..

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Once upon a time …

2 students from Stanford worked together on a project …

Who are

they ?

Sergey Brin

Born in 1973

native from Moscow

received a bachelor of science degree with honors in

mathematics and computer science from the University of

Maryland at College Park

His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his

mother is a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

settled in the US at the age of 6

received his Master ’s Degree and is currently on leave

from the Ph.D. program in computer science

& Larry Page

born in 1973 in Michigan

received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer

engineering from the University of Michigan

while at the University, he created an inkjet printer made of Lego

bricks

His parents were computer science professors at Michigan State University

got interested by computers from a very early age

received his Master ’s Degree and is currently on leave

from the Ph.D. program in computer science

What

was their

project ?

… they called it Backrub…

… they moved to a Friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California

… after a while…

And shortly after that, in 1998, they created their company:

something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data

Why

“Google?

The 2 founders defined a mission …

To organize

the world’s

information

… and make it accessible

and useful to everyone

… and

after that ?

Here is a timeline of the main events …

…you should know about

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billion pages viewed every day for google.com

languagesavailable for search (besides English)

billion worldwide searchesevery month on Google Sites

Global search market share…in 2010

million visitorsevery day

rankingfor Google.com’s global website

second max.to search its immense collection of web pages

(the largest in the world, comprising of billions

of web pages)

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money …

billion of assets[December 2009]

of revenuefrom advertising

of all the web’s

advertising revenuego directly to Google

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Do you know

how are called

the newly hired

at Google ?

They are called “Nooglers”When you’ve been around longer than 1% of the staff, you cease to

be a googler

employees all over the world[December 2009]

of work timeGoogle’s employees can spent on projects they

feel passionate about

of Google’s productsoriginated from the 20% time

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of Google’s productsare in beta

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Android ?

android apps[March 2010]

new android phonesShipped each day [March 2010]

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Blogger ?

words per minutewritten on blogger

of Blogger ’s trafficcome from outside the U.S.

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know

YouTube?

billionspent to buy YouTube in 2006

hours of videouploaded every minute

What about

the other

products ?

million of GMAIL usersevery month

million of ORKUT users

market share for Google Chrome[March 2010]

Bibliography …

ARTICLESGoogle Fun Facts, on Google’s Corporate websiteGoogle facts and figures (massive infographic), by Pingdom10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google, on MashableGoogle Milestones, by GoogleThe Birth of Google , by John BattelleThe Journey of Google past 10 years, on Readers ZoneHow many searches has Google done?, by Mathew IngramUniquely Google(TM), by Rich Scholes

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