some mind-blowing facts about Google

1.Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer, the price was knocked down to $750,000 but he still declined, saying the asking price was too high. One time Yahoo said no, but in 2002 offered to buy Google for $3 billion. Google said no, and it’s now valued at $800 billion. That's got to sting.

2.Google was originally named BackRub.

3.Google’s first office was a rented garage. Starting in September 1998, the company’s first workspace was Susan Wojcicki’s garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif.

4.Gmail was launched on April Fool's Day, no joke. Toying with Silicon Valley’s longstanding tradition of pulling April Fool’s Day pranks, Google unveiled Gmail on April 1, 2004, in a wackily-worded announcement that was widely misconstrued as a hoax.

5.Google negotiated its acquisition of YouTube's at Denny's over mozzarella sticks. “We didn't want to meet at offices,” YouTube co-founder Steven Chen said, “so we were like, ‘Where's a place that none of us would go?’” That place turned out to be a Denny's in Palo Alto, Calif. Mozzarella sticks were nibbled, hands were shaken.

6.Google gave Mountain View the gift of free Wi-Fi. In 2006, the company decided to provide Mountain View, the California town where its main headquarters is located, with free city-wide Wi-Fi. While certainly generous, it likely just meant that even more people were free to jump on the web and use the search engine.

7.Google was stored on 4GB hard drives. The company's search engine algorithm was stored on 10 separate 4GB hard drives. Today Google has indexed more than 100 million gigabytes of data, making its original 40 GB storage capacity look rather humble.

8.Don't be evil. This motto was first suggested by Google employee Paul Buchheit back in the early 2000s and appeared in Google’s 2004 IPO prospectus, later Alphabet the parent company in 2015, changed the motto slightly to “Do the right thing” in the corporate code of conduct.

9.Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as Gooogle, Gogle, Googlr.

10.There's a rotated version of Google known as 'Google Mirror', which shows everything in a mirrored avatar. It might sound like just a fun and pointless add on, but it was actually useful in circumventing the Great Firewall in China that banned Google.

11.Funny fact. Dogs with strong bladders and friendly dispositions are welcomed in the offices, but cats are discouraged due to the number of dogs present.

12.Employees are called Googlers, new employees are called Nooglers.

13.Googlers ride colorful “gBikes” around the Googleplex, none of the bikes have locks. Employees simply “borrow” the nearest set of wheels. When they're done, they drop them off conveniently close to office entryways for other Googlers to use.

14.When it went public, Google was valued as much as General Motors. The company sold 19,605,052 shares of stock for $85 per share. It was valued at $27 billion.

15.Google gave Mountain View the gift of free Wi-Fi. In 2006, the company decided to provide Mountain View, the California town where its main headquarters is located, with free city-wide Wi-Fi. While certainly generous, it likely just meant that even more people were free to jump on the web and use the search engine.

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