10 Interesting facts about Google

Google’s co-founders wanted to call Google “BackRub” because this word would’ve conveyed the importance of backlinks for a website's success.

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The word "Google" is a wordplay on the mathematics term "googol," which stands for "one followed by one hundred zeros.

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Google is banned in many countries, including China, North Korea, and Iran. These countries have their own search engines.

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Google wanted to sell its search engine in 1997 to Yahoo for $1 million in the US.

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Google owns around 70 offices in 50 countries.

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We will no longer be able to see Canadian news on Google. The Canadian government has passed Bill C-18.

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Google owns many domains based on misspellings of Google.

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Google was founded by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when they were at Stanford University in California in 1998.

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Google’s first-ever message on Twitter was “I’m feeling lucky” in binary code.

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Google Translate operates in 133 languages.

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Top five mistakes that you should avoid making in interviews

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