Google has done so many great things that sometimes it's a bit hard to keep up with its developments in real time. If you have even a little affection for this company, looking at some of the rather bizarre things they've done, you might think, after all, it's a big company, and it's still quite hard to fully understand.

A Quora user asked a simple question: What are some unexpected things Google has done? Then, many interesting answers were received.

Take a look at everyone's answers to learn about the bizarre things this respected company has done.

1. Google has a series of domain names that came about because of common spelling errors.

For example: Gooogle.com, Gogle.com, Googlr.com, and other misspelled versions of "Google" you can think of. They also have a domain name, 466453.com.

2. Google may be the only company that has ever had the explicit goal of reducing the amount of time people spend on its website.

3. Google's first storage device in 1996 was embedded in LEGO toys.

4. Google rented a herd of goats.

Yes, you read that correctly. They rented goats from a company called California Grazing to help them clear the weeds in front of Google's headquarters.

5. Google has a Tyrannosaurus Rex pet.

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

6. Google takes more than 200 factors into account before providing the best result for any query you make. And it only takes a fraction of a second.

7. Talking about Google Glass, self-driving cars, and the moonshot projects is certainly cool. But none of these is Google's main source of revenue. In 2014, of Google's $66 billion in revenue, 89% came from advertising.

8. Google has been involved in moonshot projects, which could change the lives of tens of millions of people around the world. It also places equal importance on projects that affect a smaller number of people.

In 2012, Google added Cherokee language support to Gmail. (Only about 15,000 to 22,000 people worldwide use it as their first language.)

9. Since Google launched Street View in 2007, the team responsible for this part of the business has captured more than 7.2 million miles of roads.

10. Google has 70 offices and more than 53,600 employees in over 40 countries around the world.

Imagine how much lunch Google has to produce in a year.

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

Over the years, Google has made 170 acquisitions. The total cost of the top ten most expensive acquisitions reached $24.5 billion.

12. How dependent are people on Google's services?

In 2013, Google had an outage that lasted 5 minutes, and global internet traffic dropped by 40%.

Source: http://www.pingwest.com/12-crazy-interesting-facts-about-google/