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Google: 07 Facts you probably didn't know about the search engine

Google turns 21 on Friday 27 September. The popular search engine is used by people right across the world and it's become a   really important part of the internet   for many. To mark the special day we've got 21 facts about the tech giant that you might not know, unless you've already googled them yourself, of course! 1. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Google is the world's most visited website. It's even one of the most-searched terms on Bing. 2. Google was started by two college students called Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They wanted to create a website which would rank pages based on how many other pages linked back to them - a bit like a web. 3. The word Google comes from the term 'googol', which is the number one followed by a hundred zeroes. The creators chose it to reflect the huge amount of data they were searching through. 4. Google's headquarters is known as the Googleplex and is based in  California's Silicon Valley . 5. At the Googleplex, there...