13 clever jokes from Google that probably went right over your head
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Google frequently makes us giggle with the geeky ways it handles things.
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Like the time it rewarded the man who managed to buy the "Google.com" domain for one minute: Google gave researcher Sanmay Ved $6,006.13, choosing that specific amount because it spells out Google, numerically - "squint a little and you'll see it!" the company said.
This kind of quirky antic has become almost par for the course for the search giant, which has long been down for a little nerdy fun.
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"Googleyness" is all about intellectual creativity, after all.
Here are some of our other favorite times that Google did or responded to something in a particularly silly way.
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Jillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this story.
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