7 Things I’ll Bet You Didn’t Know About Google

Here are some fun facts about the large conglomerate, foundered by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is no longer the little search engine you used to know.

The 7 Things You Didn't Know About Google (from Huff Post)

• Google officially prefers dogs over cats.

The company's love of dogs is written into its corporate code of conduct: "Google’s affection for our canine friends is an integral facet of our corporate culture.

• The first Google Doodle was an "out of office" message while Page and Brin went to Burning Man
• Google once went down for a few minutes and wrecked the Internet.

Google experienced a 2-minute outage in August 2013, and it caused Internet page views to plummet 40 percent. Wow!

• Google was founded in YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's garage
• A python once got loose in Google's New York offices
• As of 2009, Google has used goats to mow its lawn
• Steve Jobs once called up a Google exec to complain about the color of the second "o" in Google

The last time I 'googled' my name I found a Steve Shannon Tire Center, a politician from Virginia, and a gay pornstar. So I guess now you got 8 fun facts.