1. The initial name of Google was BackRub, initially designed as web site ranking in search results.

2. Google comes from the word "googol," a mathematical term to indicate 10 to the power 100.

3. A document of the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, related to its foundation and theory is the tenth most downloaded from Stanford University.

4. Both Page and Brin are the children of university professors.

5. Google's famous motto "Do not Be Evil" ("Do not be evil" was adopted by the company within its code of conduct. In fact, what he means is "Do not be Microsoft" ("Do not be Microsoft" in clear reference to its business model.

6. Google has over 10,000 employees worldwide.

7. Google encourages its employees to use the 20% of their working time to think and develop new projects.

8. The result of this initiative is the creation of projects for the likes of Gmail, Google News and AdSense.

9. In fact, the company says that half of the products that Google has released 20% come from that time off for employees.

10. Google has appointed a person to maintain this innovative environment.

11. Google headquarters in Mountain View is called the Googleplex, which is the mathematical term to refer to 10 ^ googol.

12. Larry Page has invested in Tesla Motors, a company specializing in electric sports car performance.

13. During his degree, Larry Page was part of a design team that won a race car based on solar energy.

14. The Google interface language is also Klingon (for those not 'Trekkies', it is a language appropriate to the Star Trek).

15. Google Android gives developers and users a platform based on open source.

16. Google has acquired 59 companies since 2001.

17. His first purchase was the company Deja, whose infrastructure Usenet became the basis of Google Groups.

18. Google's largest acquisition was the company DoubleClick, which spent 3,100 million dollars. Thanks to this movement considerably enhanced online advertising business.

19. In 2006 it bought YouTube for U.S. dollars 1,650 million, an initiative that put Google in the spotlight of many companies specializing in media.

20. Using Google as a verb in the language became official in 2006 when the Anglo-Saxon word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary

21. Brin and Page are tied for the Forbes list of richest people. They are ranked 26 with a property of 12,000 million dollars.

22. Google claims that each query in the search requires 1 kJ of energy.

23. Solar panels adorn the roof of the Googleplex generate enough energy to power 1,000 homes Californians.

Harper 24.La estimated that Google data center in Dallas (Oregon) consumes the same energy as the city of Tacoma (Washington).

25. The chef used to cook for the Google group Grateful Dead and to the singer George Clinton.

26. The company spends about $ 72 million a year to give their employees two free meals a day.

27. Google rents goats to mow the lawn and reduce the risk of fire on his property in Mountain View.

28. Google's first investor was Andy Bechtolsheim, a check for $ 100,000, but had to wait until Brin and Page founded the company officially.

29. The button "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google it costs a whopping $ 110 million per year by avoiding intermediate results page, showing advertising.

30. To test the first prototype of Google, Page and Brin used an array of 10 hard drives with a capacity of 4 GB each. The mounted in a box built out of Legos. ^ ^

31. Gartner estimated in 2007 that Google had at least a million servers.

32. That amount of servers, according to Gartner, would 2% of the total number of servers worldwide.

33. Sergey Brin married the younger sister of Susan Wojcicki, they rented the garage to set up their first system.

34. Google created a division called Google Venture Capital Ventures, which is investing $ 100 million until April 2010 in young technology companies.

35. Google enjoys a 65.4% search market, while Microsoft Bing currently owns only 10%.

36. Google News generates 1,000 million page views per month to news publications.

37. Google formed its philanthropic arm, Google.org, in 2004, bringing 1,000 million for common stock.

38. Google.org is focusing primarily on research on environment and health.

39. His first project was the development of an electric car capable of achieving a speed of 160 km / h.

40. The day of the innocent in the U.S. (April 1), is a great day on Google: This year launched CADIE, an artificial intelligence system capable of inserting subliminal messages in sales bids and index the contents of your brain. Logically, it was a joke.