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The Google logo was never centered (as it appears today). It only appeared centered in March 2001. It was aligned to the left earlier. (And there were a lot more distractions then).
Google’s first employee is Craig Silverstein. Craig is the man behind “exact search” (where you get pages containing the exact search term within quotes.)
In 1999, when Google moved to their Paolo Alto office, there were only 19 employees in the company. Today there are 0ver 2,700 Googlers.
It will take Google 300 years to put the entire world’s information online.
Google reckons only 10% of the world’s information is online.
Google believes up to 20% of the online content changes every month.
Google uses over 300 factors to rank websites which includes PageRank.
According to Google, 20-25% of the search queries are unique.
The index of Google is 3 times larger than Yahoo’s index or MSN’s index.
In Google, thousands of computers are involved in processing a single search query.
70% of Google engineers are working on search-related problems.
Google uses over 200 signals for Pagerank
A lot of Googlers work on automatic translation tools. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.
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