Google celebrates 25th anniversary with 9 fun facts

Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University.

The name Google is derived from the word 'googol', which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Google's first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California.

The first Google Doodle was created in 1998 and depicted the Burning Man festival.

Google's search engine processes over 3.5 billion searches per day.

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has over 135,000 employees worldwide.

Google Maps was launched in 2005 and has since become one of the most popular mapping services in the world.

Google's Android operating system is used by over 2.5 billion active devices worldwide.

Google's headquarters, known as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California and covers an area of 2.9 million square feet.

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