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The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe
Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card
Google offers its employees free lunch
BBC has 43 different translations of its website
Google's employees get free haircuts
Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day
About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006
Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month
1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online
If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest
Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007)
Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web
Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site
Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population
Google staff are known as Googlers
The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare
The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol"
Google launched their search site in 1998
The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users
Google comes from the word googol, which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros
Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders
Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979
The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM
In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a"
The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart
If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page
Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page
The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne
The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines
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