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26 Surprising Facts About Google

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26 Surprising Facts About Google

Like many companies in Silicon Valley, Google has its own famous folklore that helps explain the culture and identity behind the technology giant. From secrets to idiosyncrasies, this infographic rounds up 26 crazy facts that you likely did not know about Google.

The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This part you know, but did you know that the original name of the search engine was “Backrub”? Later on, it was changed to the mathematical term “googol” which is a large number equal to a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. However, when an investor misspelled it on a cheque as “Google”, the name stuck.

In 2006, the name was also added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as a word meaning “Search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine Google”.

Other interesting tidbits:

  • Everyone is familiar with the Google doodles, but the first one was done when Larry and Sergey went to Burning Man festival in Nevada. It was intended as an “out of office” message to indicate they wouldn’t be able to provide tech support if something went wrong on the site
  • The Google logo used to have a Yahoo-like exclamation point until 2001
  • Google has averaged acquiring a company a week since 2010
  • Google acquired Youtube after a series of meetings at Denny’s

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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

This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources.

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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