• In September 1997, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided their BackRub search engine (started in 1995) needed a new name. After some brainstorming, they came up with Google – a play on the word ‘googol,’ a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web

• Google was listed as a verb in Webster’s dictionary in 2006

• Every minute, 15 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube, which is equivalent to more than 86,000 full-length movies each week

• Whether Google officially becomes a ‘broadcaster’ in Canada depends upon the upcoming CRTC rulings

• Google opened its first Canadian office in Toronto in 2002, and moved to its current Dundas Square location in October 2008