Just Google it, of course. For 19 years, the search engine has been the answer to all our queries, from the most random to the most meaningful.
And on its 19th birthday today, Google, which made the 'doodle' famous and part of all our online lives, spun another surprise.
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Over the 19 years, Google has progressed beyond just providing search results.
Apart from producing its own hardware and software, it has delved into areas like self-driving cars, synthetic intelligence & gadget mastering and Google analytics.
Google is named after the "Googol", which is basically the number 1 followed by a hundred zeroes.
The search giant, which was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, currently serves 4.6 billion users across 160 countries - searching for things in 123 different languages.
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