Google's name is a play on the word “googol”, which means the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

As of December 31, 2005, Google employed 5,680 full time employees. Google employees are known as Googlers, and they are a very diverse team: one operations manager is a former neurosurgeon, one software engineer is a former rocket scientist. As Google has in its philosophy: “You can be serious without a suit.”

In 2002, American Dialect Society members voted "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year. In 2006, the verb “to google” was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary.

The first 10 language versions of Google.com (French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, etc) were released in May 2000. Today Google is available in 124 language interfaces.

Google Translation Service translates 35 different languages to each other, forming 595 language pairs.

Google AdWords program was launched in 2000 with just 350 customers.

The first launch of Street View imagery in Europe was in 2008 with Street View for the entire 2008 Tour de France route

Google Doodles, the drawings designed on, around and through the Google logo on Google home page were launched in 2000.