Co-founder of Google with Sergey Brin, CEO of Alphabet and the man behind Mountain View’s ongoing and relentless diversification into every single stratum of our tech-centric lives, Larry Page can lay claim to some serious data. Google is, of course, named for a number – a very big number – so it’s appropriate that any stats culled from the company’s day-to-day operations are suitably mind-boggling. Here are the facts and figures that prove Page will influence our intelligence for decades to come.
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As featured in the October 2016 issue of Wallpaper* (W*211)
... people are on Google's payroll, and the company gets more than 2.5 million job applications a year. The famously intensive interview process weeds out all but the most qualified future Googlers
... apps are available in the Google Play store – 65 billion were downloaded by users in 2015, a number that earned developers around $7 billion over a 12-month period (as of August 2016)
... languages are served up by Google Translate, with a billion translations a day
.... new Chromebooks are switched on for the first time every school day in the US, outnumbering all other devices
... world cities now host Google offices – together they contain 185 cafes serving up 125,000 free meals a day
... of all movie searches relate to location
... is the average time for a Google search to ping back a result from its global arsenal of servers
... handle Google's traffic, eight in the US, plus Chile, Taiwan, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Singapore and the Netherlands
... the number of users of Gmail, users or Google Play and users of YouTube. There are also 1.4 billion Android users around the world
... of all Google searches are seeking out new information the company has never served up before. Around half of all searches originate in the USA and more than half of all searches come via mobile devices
... hours of video is uploaded onto YouTube every minute
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