Facts and figures with Google Press Day

Search:

At the beginning of its existence, Google indexed 25 thousand web pages - now there are billions of them. With each new indexing network increases by 10-25%.
As the Internet grows, so does the importance of search. Analogy is a library: the more books there are, the more important their accounting is.
20-25% of Google search queries have never been asked before.
Google PageRank algorithm uses more than 200 criteria to determine the rating of the site.
In 2006, the iGoogle personalized page service ( and then Google Personalized Homepage ) became the fastest growing product. There are now more than 10,000 free gadgets (widgets) available to iGoogle users.

Languages:

Now the Google Book Search index includes books written in more than 90 languages.
Machine translation service Google Translate supports 12 languages.
Google works in 112 languages, including Breton, Catalan, Kurdish, Frisian and Gaelic.
Google Apps for Education is used at universities in Rwanda, Kenya, Egypt, Ireland, Ukraine, Japan, as well as the states of Michigan and Arizona.

Corporate culture:

The company has provided all its employees in Europe with free bikes.
Google launched a regular private corporate bus service in San Francisco, the largest of its kind in the area.
The largest solar system in the US is deployed on the Googleplex.

Profit:

Last year, Google’s revenue was $ 10.6 billion, of which $ 3 billion was returned to its publishing partners through AdSense .
In the first quarter of this year, Google’s revenue from its partners amounted to $ 1 billion.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11252/