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15 Facts You Don’t Know About Google by bookspen(m): 9:55pm On Jul 16, 2016
Below are 15 facts we bet you did not know about Google even as an internet guru.

1. Google was initially called “Backrub”

2. 2 million searches are performed on Google every minute.

3. In 1999, the founders of Google begged to sell Google to a company called Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down.

4. Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.

5. If you search for “askew” in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.

6. Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.

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Re: 15 Facts You Don’t Know About Google by Nobody: 2:03pm On Jul 17, 2016
Nice facts. I've read enough so la click la askew.

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