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 is a giant statue of a T-Rex dinosaur, which is often covered in flamingos. Rumour has it that this is a reminder to Google employees not to allow the company to go extinct.
6. Its headquarters are huge and there's lots of greenery. However, instead of lawnmowers, Google hires goats to keep the grass trimmed.
7. Google was the first big tech company to offer free meals to people who work there, and it allows employees to bring their dogs to work too.
More about google
Google is an American company that is most commonly known as a search engine.
Although the company made it’s name as a search engine, and the vast majority of its income comes from advertising because of this, it has branched out into a number of areas such as cloud computing, software and hardware.
Recently the company moved into the mobile hardware market by creating its first Google phone, called Pixel.
The cloud unit of the company is called Google Cloud, which contains things like G-Suite, the company’s productivity applications like Gmail and Google Drive.
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