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Without a doubt Google is one of the most amazing companies ever created. From it’s humble beginnings just a few years ago in 1998 Google has become the dominate company in Internet searching and online advertising.

Google has developed a corporate culture that is the envy of many. Google has a college like campus at it’s headquarters at Mountain View, California and daily receives job applications in the hundreds from some of the world’s best and brightest in the IT industry.

The following information is taken from the GoogleSystem.Blogspot:

Google Numbers & Facts

Some facts about Google, from the Press Day event that took place in Paris this week, captured by Tony Ruscoe.

Search

* When Google started we indexed 25,000 web pages - today we index billions. Each time we index the web it’s grown by 10 to 25%.

* As the web grows, search becomes more important. It’s like a library - the bigger the library, the more important the index.

* 20 to 25% of Google queries have never been searched before.

* Google’s PageRank algorithm uses more than 200 signals to determine the rank of a website.

* iGoogle was our fastest growing product last year (2006). People have personalized their iGoogle homepages with over 10,000 free gadgets.

Languages

* The Google Book Search index includes books in over 90 languages.

* Google’s machine translation service is available in 12 languages.

* Google operates in 112 languages including Breton, Reto-Romanic, Catalan, Kurdish, Frisian and Gaelic.

* Universities in Rwanda, Kenya, Japan, Egypt, Ireland, the Ukraine, Michigan and Arizona are all using Google Apps for Education.

Corporate culture

* In 2007 Google gave free bicycles to all its employees in Europe.

* Google’s San Francisco shuttle bus service is the biggest of any company in the area. One shared car provides as much transportation as 20 privately owned cars.

* Google has the largest corporate solar panel installation in the US.

Revenue

* Of the $10.6bn Google generated in revenue last year, $3bn was handed back to our publishing partners through AdSense.

* In the first quarter of this year Google generated over $1bn in revenues from our partners.

What a company. Google has redefined what business success can mean not only for its shareholders and employees but to the clients that it serves.  

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