I’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s share prices recently, because they’ve been going up…and up…and up. In fact, as of today, just one share in Google will cost you around $620. That’s insane! I’ve put together a few statistics just to really get my head around how huge this company has become:

So the highlighted figure is Google’s annual revenue. $181 billion dollars. One company. One hundred and eighty one BILLION dollars. Unbelievable. To put that in perspective, this is Wikipedia’s list of countries by GDP:

The oil-soaked United Arab Emirates generates $168 billion dollars of economic activity every year, which is still smaller than Google. At the moment, the search engine giant is almost bigger than Portugal. This blows my mind. I also recently read that Microsoft was bidding for a sizable stake in Facebook, like 20% or something. Turns out Facebook’s net worth is around the $500 million mark. Insane.

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