26Friendster
Google offered to buy Friendster in 2003 for $30 million. The offer was rejected and is considered to be one of the worst Silicon Valley blunders of all time.
27. Google became more valuable than Russia's entire stock market back in December 2014.
28. On the day of his death, "Heath Ledger" was understandably the number 1 search on Google. Number 2 was "Keith Ledger".
29. In 2010, when Google replaced their logo with playable Pacman, users spent an extra 36 seconds on the page. Assuming this time was wasted, it resulted in a $120 million loss in man hours.
30. Google paid a fine of $22.5 million for illegal data collection, $500 million for knowingly allowing fraudulent pharmacies to advertise on their site, and were accused of profiting from women sex trafficking by 38 different anti-trafficking organizations.
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31Waze app
In 2013, Google bought the GPS app "Waze" which resulted in each of the 100 employees receiving an average of $1.2 million.
32. In 2001, Neopets was the 4th most trafficked website on the internet, 8 spots in front of Google.
33. When a UK auto shop mechanic saw the Google Street View car coming his way, he staged a murder scene. Police paid the shop a visit a year later after the image was finally spotted on Street View.
34. AT&T Charges $40-$50 less for gigabit broadband in markets where Google Fiber exists.
35. In August 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and, as a result, took 40% of all internet traffic with it.
