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Amazing facts about Google..

1)The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’


2) Go to Google homepage and type the words “I want to commit suicide”. Above all the search results, Google provides the Suicide Helpline number of your country.Check it.


3)A young girl wrote to Google to give her father a day off as it was his birthday. This is what Google sent back in reply. Now, that is something. 


4) Go to Google Maps. Click on the satellite view and zoom out as much as possible. You can see an amazing view of earth with real time shadows. You can see real time clouds if you zoom in twice. Pretty amazing, right?



5)Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct.


6) Search “atari breakout” in Google Images and you can play the game. Try it now.


7)Google has been acquiring, on average, more than one company per week since 2010. 


8)Type any number in the search bar and Google will spell it out for you.Check it.


9)Google’s home page has 28 validation errors and five warnings. Check it out here: Google Validation.



10)Google Sky Maps allows you to view stars, constellations, galaxies and planets. Check out www.google.com/sky.