Google uses 200 goats from California Grazing to tend the grass around its headquarters instead of lawn mowers, reducing air pollution and being cost-effective. Google has acquired around 170 companies since 2010 and receives over 3 billion searches daily.
Goats tend the grounds around Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California instead of lawn mowers. In an initiative to be more environmentally friendly and reduce air pollution from gasoline-powered lawn mowers, Google hires the services of a company called California Grazing, which supplies Google with around 200 goats. The animals spend about a week eating and fertilizing the grass in the fields outside Google headquarters. According to Google, using goats instead of mowing is about the same cost, but goats are more pleasant for employees to look at, as well as being a greener solution.
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Since 2010, Google has acquired an average of one new company a week, for a total of about 170, and has spent more than 28 billion US dollars (USD) since 2015. These include a clean energy startup, a drones and an intelligence producer.
About 200 different factors are considered for the Google search engine to determine which results to show to users.
It is estimated that 3 billion searches are performed on Google every day, for an annual total of more than 1 trillion searches.
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