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6 Things You Didn't Know About Google

Everybody knows Google: it’s the site you visit when you want to find something online, or, depending on your viewpoint, it is the evil corporation that is mining data on your daily Internet searches. But how well do you really know Google?

Enter Douglas Edwards, a former Google employee who took part in the company’s major corporate ascent and, in a recent tell-all book available on Amazon, has shared his Google experience. What he mentions may surprise you. Here are 6 things you may not know or remember about good old (young to us) Google.

By: Ryan Karpusiewicz

July 17, 2011

Source: Getty Images

In 1999, did you think Google would become as big as it has become? Most likely not.

"[1999's Mountain View office]'s where I joined the company, which at the time had about fifty employees and was doing almost seven million searches a day. Even though it was a seventy thousand percent increase over the year before, it barely registered as a blip on the radar of major players like Yahoo, AOL, and MSN, which were each delivering on the order of half a billion page views per day."

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