#saanchi 20 amazing facts and figures about google: 1. The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide. 2. Google began as a research project in 1996 3. Google domain went online in 1997 4. The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems 5. The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking up to much time from their research in 1999 6. The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated 7. Google incorporated in 1998 8. 30 million pages indexed in 1998 9. 1 billion pages indexed in 2000 10. Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001 11. Acquired Blogger in 2003 12. Adsense launched in 2003 13. Gmail launched in 2004 14. Google IPO in 2004 16. 8 billion pages indexed in in 2004 17. Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion 18. 1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008 19. Android announced in 2007 19. Chrome launched in 2008 20. 1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
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