Google Facts and Figures

Royal Pingdom is one site which can come up with some really cool stuff, including analysis of huge amounts of data. So when I came across a post called Google facts and figures, I just sat down to see what interesting things I could learn about Google.











Here are some highlights of the research put up by them.

◦Google gave 1.8 million shares to Stanford Univ to license PageRank, which were later sold in 2005 for $336 million.

◦620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.

◦97% of Google Revenue comes from their advertising services.

◦Google processes 20 Petabyte of information daily.

◦As of December 2009, Google’s assets were valued at $40.5 billion

◦A new Google employee is called Noogler, and later transitions to be called a Googler.

◦Google has a total of 19,835 employees worldwide out of which 37% are in sales and marketing and 37.5% in research and development.

◦45% of Google products are in beta.

◦20 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

◦Google Chrome now has a 5.22% market share.

◦There are about 146 million Gmail users.

◦57% of the top 10,000 websites use Google Analytics to track users.