Happy Birthday Google!
Posted on 10. Sep, 2008 by Nikos in Google, Internet, Microsoft
10 years Google! It was 7th of September 1998 (Sunday) when Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the google.com! From then until now, nobody was expecting that Google would be one of the most expensive brand name in the world and that there would be 65 millions searches per hour!
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New York Times compared Google and Microsoft:
Google?s age: 10
Microsoft?s age: 33
Google?s revenue in the last 4 quarters: $19.6 billion
Microsoft?s revenue in the last 4 quarters: $60.4 billion
Microsoft?s revenue at age 10: $140 million
($279 million in today?s dollars)
Google?s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $2.2 million
Microsoft?s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $6.9 million
Google net income in the last 4 quarters: $4.85 billion
Microsoft?s net income in the last 4 quarters: $17.6 billion
Google employees, as of June 30th: 19,604
Microsoft employees, as of May 31st: 89,809
Google?s revenue per employee: $1 million
Microsoft revenue per employee: $672,000
Market value of Google: $142 billion
Market value of Microsoft: $241 billion
Number of tech companies with a market value larger than Google?s: 3 (Microsoft, I.B.M. and Apple, in that order)
Worldwide searches on Google in July: 48.7 billion
Worldwide searches on Microsoft in July: 2.3 billion
Worldwide searches per hour on Google in July: 65 million
Worldwide searches per hour on Microsoft in July: 3.1 million
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