Google has made two mistakes over the years

Google does so many great things that it can be hard to keep up with them. If you have a little affection for the company and see some of the weird things they've done, you might think that it's hard to fully understand them, since they're a big company.

A Quora user asked a simple question: What unexpected things does Google do? Then, he received many interesting answers.

Take a look at the responses to learn about some of the weird things this venerable company has done.

The company has a series of function variable names that appear due to common spelling errors.

For example: Gooogle.com, Gogle.com, Googlr.com, and any other misspelling of "Google" you can think of. They also have a function variable name of 466453.com.

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Google may be the only company that has ever had an explicit goal to reduce the amount of time people spend on its website.
The first Google storage device in 1996 was embedded in a Lego toy.

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Google rents a herd of goats.

Yes, you read that correctly. They rented goats from a company called California Livestock to help them clear the weeds outside Google headquarters.

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Google has a pet T. Rex.

It also has its own name, Stan, and lives in Google's headquarters in California. The founder bought it to remind employees not to let Google go extinct.

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Google takes more than 200 factors into account before delivering the best result for any query you make. And it does so in a fraction of a second.

It's cool to talk about Google Glass, self-driving cars, and moonshots, but they're not the main source of Google's revenue. In 2014, 89% of Google's $66 billion in revenue came from advertising.

Google is involved in moonshot projects that could change the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but it is equally interested in projects that could change the lives of just a few.

In 2012, Google launched Cherokee (spoken as a primary language by only an estimated 15,000 to 22,000 people worldwide) in Gmail.

Since Google launched Street View in 2007, the team responsible for the service has captured more than 7.2 million miles.
Google has 70 offices and over 53,600 employees in more than 40 countries around the world.

Imagine how many lunches Google produces in a year.

When Google wants something, its first solution is to throw money at it.

Over the years, Google has made 170 acquisitions. The top ten most expensive acquisitions totaled $24.5 billion.

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How much do people rely on Google's services?

In 2013, Google once went down for 5 minutes, and global network traffic dropped by 40%.