Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.
Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising more than 3 billion web pages, and which if printed, would result in a stack of paper 130 miles high. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian.
Over 70% of all searches conducted on the Internet originate from Google! And this figure is increasing all the time.
Google's range of services is truly amazing. For a complete list of thier services please visit: Google Services. I'm sure you will find something of good use. They also provide some of the best advertising options which we will discuss a bit later.
So the real questions is, "Why NOT Google?"
| What does the word 'Google' mean? |
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. - Excerpt taken from Google.com