Goats tend to the grounds around Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California instead of lawn mowers.
In an initiative to be more environmentally friendly and cut down on air pollution from gasoline-fueled lawn mowers, Google hires the services of a company called California Grazing, which supplies about 200 goats to Google. The animals spend about a week eating and fertilizing the grass in the fields outside Google’s headquarters.
According to Google, using goats instead of mowing is roughly the same cost, but the goats are more enjoyable for employees to watch, in addition to being a more green solution.
More about Google:
- Since 2010, Google has acquired an average of one new company per week, for a total of about 170, and spent over $28 billion US Dollars (USD) as of 2015. These include a clean energy startup, a drone company, and an artificial intelligence manufacturer.
- Approximately 200 different factors are taken into account for the Google search engine to determine what results to show users.
- There are an estimated 3 billion Google searches performed each day, for an annual total of over 1 trillion searches.
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