20 Things You Didn't Know About Google

8. Yahoo Should've Bought Them

Yep, back in the day, Yahoo were offered the chance to buy the fledgling Google. That would've kept the former search engine giants at the top of the pile, instead of...wherever they are today. In 1997, the offer stood at $1 million for Yahoo to acquire Google. Today, Yahoo is worth $20 billion, whilst Google (on last count) were worth $200 billion. That's one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the IT industry.

7. Gogle And Goglr Work Too

Google likes to keep in control of its copyrights. The company has trademarked each letter in their company name (wait, how does that work?), and they've also bought up the domains for all the most common misspellings. That means you can reach the search engine by typing in gooogle.com, gogle.com, googlr.com or 466453.com. That last one's Google spelt out on an old phone, obvs.