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55 Facts You May Not Know About Google

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Google, now a part of parent Alphabet, is one of the most impressive companies to be born in the last two decades.

The domain was registered in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the company was incorporated in 1998. The “Google Guys” worked out of a garage in Menlo Park, California, with a simple but ambitious mission: to organize the seemingly unlimited amounts of information scattered throughout the web.

It’s almost twenty years later, and we now know that Google’s monetization of search has changed the world. The company basically mints cash for investors each quarter, and this gives Alphabet the leeway from Wall Street to take an unprecedented amount of moonshots to find its next cash cow.

And while the vast majority of people are aware of Google’s success, there are also some things that are less widely known about the company and its history.

55 Facts You May Not Know About Google

The following infographic from BargainFox shares 55 facts on Google, including some that you may not have heard before.

55 Facts You May Not Know About Google

While many have heard that Google was started in a garage (like various other billion dollar tech companies), it is less clear that the garage was owned by Susan Wojcicki, who is now the CEO of Youtube.

Likewise, it is widely known that the name Google was based off of the number “googol”, which is represented by numeral one and then followed by some 100 zeros. However, many people don’t realize that this number is symbolic: it represents the almost infinite amount of individual web pages on the internet, which Google aims to organize.

Lastly, while most advertisers are aware that some search terms are likely to cost more on Google, many do not know the crazy world of ultra-specific legal keywords. Terms like “San Antonio car wreck attorney” and “West Palm Beach criminal lawyer” are the most expensive search phrases to sponsor on Google.

By recent accounts, the most expensive search term these days is “best mesothelioma lawyers” which costs $194.40 per individual click. Law firms are willing to pay for leads, because mesothelioma is a very rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Victims suffering from the disease are entitled to receive $1.1 million in compensation from the government within 30 days of their claim’s approval, and as a result, the cases can be very lucrative for lawyers.

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Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI

We visualized the results of an analysis by the World Economic Forum, which uncovered the jobs most impacted by AI.

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Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI

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Large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools haven’t been around for very long, but they’re expected to have far-reaching impacts on the way people do their jobs. With this in mind, researchers have already begun studying the potential impacts of this transformative technology.

In this graphic, we’ve visualized the results of a World Economic Forum report, which estimated how different job departments will be exposed to AI disruption.

Data and Methodology

To identify the job departments most impacted by AI, researchers assessed over 19,000 occupational tasks (e.g. reading documents) to determine if they relied on language. If a task was deemed language-based, it was then determined how much human involvement was needed to complete that task.

With this analysis, researchers were then able to estimate how AI would impact different occupational groups.

DepartmentLarge impact (%)Small impact (%)No impact (%)
IT73261
Finance70219
Customer Sales671617
Operations651817
HR57412
Marketing56413
Legal46504
Supply Chain431839

In our graphic, large impact refers to tasks that will be fully automated or significantly altered by AI technologies. Small impact refers to tasks that have a lesser potential for disruption.

Where AI will make the biggest impact

Jobs in information technology (IT) and finance have the highest share of tasks expected to be largely impacted by AI.

Within IT, tasks that are expected to be automated include software quality assurance and customer support. On the finance side, researchers believe that AI could be significantly useful for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing.

Still interested in AI? Check out this graphic which ranked the most commonly used AI tools in 2023.

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