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oogle History & Trivia:

At the beginning, desks were made of wooden doors and sawhorses. Some are still used by the engineering group.

The first round of venture capital, $25 million, was provided by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Sequoia also funded YouTube with $8 million before it was purchased by Google.

The first non-engineering Google employee was Omid Kordestani, who started in sales in May, 1999. Omid still works for Google today as the Senior V.P. of Global Sales & Business Development.

Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Videos, Google Search & Other Google Services:

Google is primarily known around the world as an internet search engine. Additionally, Google provides a huge suite of internet products and services. Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Videos, Google Images, Gmail, Google News, Google Phone, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Translate, and Google Books are the internet-based services that make Google the #2 most popular global website, according to Alexa.com.

Google, YouTube, and Blogger:

In 2006 Google made a high profile purchase of the YouTube website, which, at the time, was less than two years old and unprofitable. By 2008, comScore, Inc. was reporting that nearly 100 million unique users were visiting YouTube.com every month, each viewing an average of 55 videos.

Another stand-alone Google-owned and operated website is Blogger.com. The ninth most popular global website, Blogger was made possible by Google’s purchase of Pyra Labs and Genius Labs in 2003. As of 2008, it is estimated that 6% of U.S. adults have created a blog, and over 57 million people read them.

Google Alternatives:

Google dominates the internet as a search engine, with 61.8% market share in 2008, according to comScore.com. The next largest search engines are Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Ask. Yahoo owns search engines AltaVista, All the Web, and Overture.

Other popular Google alternatives search engines include Excite,...