The Google monster knows everything. It knows what you're searching for, how long you're online, and all the bitchy things you've typed to your friends over Google Talk.

But we too can play that game! Oh yes, I've used the monster against itself for this week's Friday Fact Box. Oh how the tables have turned. Muhahahahaha!

(Small victories ok? Don't judge me.)

Image via Flickr, by manfrys (under CC)

From BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis, Google is God  December 2007

• Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” Times of London, 1/29/06
• Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise
• Google was searched 4.4 billion times in the U.S. alone in October, 2007 (three times Yahoo), says Nielsen
• Average searches per searcher: 40.7
• Google™s sites had 112 million U.S. visitors in November, 2007, says Nielsen
• Google™s traffic was up 22.4% in 2007 over 2006, according to Comscore
• Google earned $15 billion revenue and $6.4 billion profit in 2007, a profit margin of 26.9%
• Its revenue was up 57% in the last quarter of 2007 over 2006, says Yahoo Finance
• As of late 2007, its stock was up 53% in a year. The company has a market capitalization of $207.6 billion
• Google controls 79% of the pay-per-click ad market, according to RimmKaufman
• It controls 40% of all online advertising, according to web site HipMojo
• Google employed almost 16,000 people at the end of 2007, a 50% increase over the year before
• Google became the No. 1 brand in the world in 2007, according to Millward Brown Brandz Top 100

RapLeaf Statistics on Google's Open Social Platform end users and Facebook's users November 2007

• OpenSocial platform are 61% female and 38% male

From Cog Web Design Don't Say Search Engine - Say Google August 2008

Search Hours (in turn taken from Nielsen's 2002)

• Google -> 13 million hours
• Yahoo -> 5.4 million hours
• MSN -> 4.9 million hours

From Wikipedia List of Google Products checked 28th August 2008

• There are roughly 150 Google products listed, spanning from desktop, mobile, mapping to search
• Google has 34 Search products

From Google Blogoscoped How many employees does Google Have?

• 16805 full-time employees as of December 31st 2007

 From ComputerWorld Opinion: Why Google has lost its Mojo -- and why you should care  August 2008

• Google's stock price has plummeted about 34% from more than $740 per share in November 2007 to about $490 early last week. That's even worse than the overall market: The Nasdaq fell 16% and the Dow 17% in the same period.
• When Solyanik left Google, he had this to say about Google services such as Gmail and Google Docs: "There's just too much of it that is regularly broken. It seems like every week 10% of all the features are broken.... And it's a different 10% every week -- the old bugs are getting fixed, the new ones introduced."