19 Illustrated Google Facts Because Our Friend ‘Google’ has turned 19!

Pawan Kumar
ART + marketing
Published in
3 min readSep 27, 2017

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Today, Google (world’s most popular and valuable search engine) is celebrating its 19th birthday (with a surprise spinner).

What do you say to your friend when he doesn’t find the answer he’s looking for?

“Google It.”

Right?

Google is not just a search engine, it has become our best friend and a vital part of our daily life — always ready to answer your question, no matter what the situation is.

People believe that if something doesn’t exist on Google, it doesn’t exist at all — this is the power of Google.

Google has just turned 19 and here I’d love to share 19 interesting facts about Google that you probably never knew!

1. Google was originally called “Backrub”

2. First Google Doodle was dedicated to the burning man festival

3. Google takes care of employee’s families

4. People are searching so many things

5. Marissa Mayer was the first female employee at Google

6. Search for ‘atari breakout’ in Google images

7. 3.5 Million searches per minute

8. Google got its name by accident!

9. Want to Go to Mars?

10. Many people thought Gmail was an April fool prank

11. How Google Maps calculates traffic

12. Google went down for 5 minutes and this happened…

13. Google hired a camel

14. A single Google search requires…

15. Search for ‘askew’ In Google

16. Steve Jobs once called Google

17. Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube

18. One gram of your DNA could store all Google’s data

19. No more — “Don’t Be Evil

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Pawan Kumar
ART + marketing

Writer. Inbound Marketer. An Ambivert. Featured on Entrepreneur, Jeff Bullas, Addicted 2 Success, & HuffPost. My LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prepawan/