It seems like everyone is visiting http://www.migratorymaps.com/www-google-com-33-great-facts/ and using their search engine to find the information they like.

In fact:

Google actually handles over a billion search requests ever single day!

It takes a huge amount of resources (over one million computers) to handle the amount of traffic their site receives.

Alexa actually ranks Google as the number one most popular site on the web!

Think about this:

A site dedicated to helping you find other sites is itself the most popular.

It’s kind of ironic, don’t you think?

It’s amazing how fast and far Google has come.

Would you have thought that some oddly-named search engine founded by two PhD students at Stanford would go on to become the largest online search index the world has ever seen?

The founders sure didn’t… at least not initially.

Get this:

Google’s founders actually offered to sell their search engine to the CEO of Excite for the price tag of one million US dollars.

His response?

Uh, no I’ll pass.

Of course, that didn’t stop Google from growing into becoming the multi-billion dollar corporation it is today.

By 2012, the company’s revenue actually hit the 50 billion dollar mark.

One year later the company went public!

I bet Excite’s CEO wasn’t all too excited about the lost opportunity.

Consider this:

There are countries whose GDP is worth far less than that of Google’s yearly revenue.

Entire countries!

Google is a company that really tries to push the envelope when it comes to spurring innovation in the workplace.

If you’re ever feeling bored try this:

Under Google Images type in “Atari breakout” and you’ll automatically be able to play the all time classic.

Try it.

It works!

Don’t worry if you’re looking for some more neat facts on Google we got you covered.

Here they are:

5 Facts about Google

Written by: Joe Maerk

Published by: Derek Tangredi