I am a huge Google geek, so these Google facts were like soft porn to me.
1. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.
2. Google’s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don’t believe me?: Check Google Validation
3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.
4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used.
However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce
the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they
noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of
nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they
replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular
problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end
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