Google is celebrating its 20th birthday. Here are some statistics that drive home just how powerful it is.
Google is celebrating its 20th birthday and, gimmicks aside, it’s a good excuse to consider how staggeringly massive the company has become.
Some competitors have cried monopoly over the company’s tendency to feature its own services in search results, like job postings, business reviews, travel information, and shopping results. So far, it’s been slapped with two antitrust fees in the European Union, a $2.7 billion fine for its shopping results last year and $5 billion for competition abuses related to Android earlier this year.
