7 Facts You Didn’t Know About Google and Should

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7 Facts You Didn’t Know About Google and Should

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1. Google earns $20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX combined.

2. Because Gmail launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools’ Day prank.

3. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%.

4. Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless as criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven’t gone to college.

5. Google was originally called Backrub.

6. When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.

7. Firefox web browser’s lead developer is now working for Google Chrome.