The most valuable brand in the world wasn't always Google. It was an obedient digital dog that just found and got things for internet users repeatedly while playing fetch long before it became a go-to verb.

The small G, which was originally a 1995 Ph.D. research project at Stanford University, eventually developed into the $367 billion big G that we know and love-hate today 😏. The global digital colossus is no longer content to merely fetch links; instead, it increasingly pursues meatier, more significant prey, such as snagging the world's fastest internet connections. Here are 18 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about Google.

1. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the two founders of Google, met by chance 😶.
2. BackRub was the initial name of Google.
3. A rented garage served as Google's first workplace 😐.
4. On April 1st of 2004, Google released its Gmail email service for the first time. Many individuals consequently believed it to be a joke!
5. PageRank is the name of the Google search algorithm.
6. On August 16, 2013, Google was unavailable for 5 minutes; during that period, Internet usage fell by 40% worldwide 😯.
7. In 1997, Google sought to sell Yahoo its search engine system for $ 2 million 😮 (those were dark confusing times 😂).
8. Just one Google search uses around the same amount of computing power it took to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon 😐.
9. 16% to 20% of all Google searches are brand-new queries.
10. There are 80 languages available on the Google site.
11. Google holds a 90% market share globally.
12. The domain Google.com was registered on September 15, 1997; Google has since registered several other domains. Along with the Google domain, it has naturally registered a variety of misspellings 🙂.
13. There is a tonne of greenery and space at its offices. Google, however, pays goats to keep the grass manicured in place of lawnmowers 😎.
14. Google knows a lot about you, but that's not necessarily a bad thing 😁.
15. Google makes more than 90% of its income from advertising.
16. Google allowed employees to bring their dogs to work 🙂.
17. The Googleplex, Google's corporate headquarters are located in Silicon Valley, California.
18. Google is now much more than a simple search engine. Future innovations are expected to include driverless cars, new streaming-based game platforms, and artificial intelligence.

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