The internet giant Google drives people curious on important and interesting numbers. Pingdom is an international creative agency that has brought to you these numbers in a interesting infographic better than a boring wikipedia interface.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. The first funding for Google was in August 1998; the company moved its offices to Palo Alto, California in March 1999; Google has acquired many companies starting 2001.