1. Since Google ™s centerpiece in search technology was patented by Stanford University (on behalf of the founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin), Google gave Stanford 1.8 million shares for exclusive right to the patent that the university later sold for a staggering $336 million.
2. Google earns 97 percent of its revenues from advertising alone. This amounts to $20 billion.
3. Did you know that Google logs each search queries into its systems to enhance future searches?
