10 Surprising Facts About Google

10. Google estimates that an ad on its homepage would cost $10 million.The space is not for sale.

9. The name Google is actually a misspelling of word googol a mathematical term meaning a 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

8. Google 'doodles' started in 1998 with a stick man placed behind the logo. It let users know the founders had gone to the burning man festival.

7. Google does not use lawnmowers to cut its grass. In 2009 they rented 200 goats to chow down on the grass at their HQ.

6. The Google homepage is available in over 80 languages. In case of alien invasion one of them is Star Trek's Klingon.

5. Google has its own dinosaur called Stan. The T-Rex skeleton lives at their California HQ.

4. Yahoo turned down the chance to buy Google for $1 million in 1997. Today it is worth $200 billion, Yahoo just $20 billion.

3. Google first tweet was 'I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111
00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010. It means 'I'm feeling lucky in binary.

2. The 'I'm feeling lucky button costs Google over $100 million a year in lost ad revenue.

1. Google has more than 1 million servers - 2 % of the world's total. It receives over 1 billion search request every day.