If you ever really wanted to grasp how massive Google really is check this out
 

From Pingdom.com

Google has perhaps more than any other company become “The Internet Company.” It’s grown hand in hand with the internet and its entire business model has from the start been totally focused on the internet as a delivery platform.

And let’s face it, Google is a pretty interesting company. In fact, we think it’s so interesting that we put together this infographic with a ton of facts and figures about Google. We’ve been digging through Google’s SEC filings, news articles and the trusty old Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include. We hope you like it!

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Accompanying article: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/24/...e-infographic/

Pretty badass numbers

Numbers intimidate me

Google closed at $622.88 Today, they sold way too early.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/educati..._google_stock/

"Stanford sold 184,207 of the shares -- about 10 percent of its stake -- for $15.7 million in Google's initial public offering in August 2004.

The big windfall came from a second sale early this year. Stanford won't say exactly when it sold the stock or for what price.

But the total gain of $336 million on Stanford's Google stock, confirmed by Katherine Ku, director of Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing, works out to an average price of $187 a share.

That's a little more than twice Google's initial trading price of $85 a share. But Stanford could have profited more richly: Google's stock has skyrocketed, closing Wednesday at $404.91.

Had Stanford waited until this week to sell its Google shares, it could have brought in more than $700 million."

And that clip is from 2005.

1,800,000 x 622.88 = 1,121,184,000.00

Bah, google is a bubble. ;-)

Impressive numbers

Pretty impressive stuff. All born out of a couple of guys and an idea. WOW.

Yep my first thought too, a little fast on the sell trigger there :)

cant argue with it, i used to hate google prefered yahoo, sometimes i hit yahoo outta habbit

A 21 century Ray Krock ...

Toooo many numbers.

those numbers should inspire you and should show you that Buying loyalty actually works.

impressive numbers

i love infographics

interesting stats :thumbsup

That has to involve some kind of evil...

Their IPO was the constant e?
That just shows you how random the markets are...

Pretty nice numbers there!

really interesting :)

no doubt...

why is it that infographics never look right on my android phone, even if i zoom in? Fail.

23,000 employees according to the news yesterday.

More up to date stats :thumbsup :
http://i.imgur.com/8ZOfv.jpg

Wasn't random, these guys built their business on math and would have used it often.

Now that is impressive!

Acquired https://youtube.com was a huge move.
Google also owns http://www.videos.google.com.

But, 97% of revenue is from advertising. The click broker middle man is still a profitable model.

That is a lot of control over this here gadget called the internet.

Bill Gates is probably still kicking his own butt for missing this boat...

Cool facts, nice reading :thumbsup