Google has held the title of being the world’s most popular search engine for quite some time now. It’s no secret that Google runs the Internet game. The company has a list of interesting facts and trivia that goes with the territory for being one of the world’s most recognised brands. Keep reading to discover 3 exciting facts about Google!
Fact 1. From 2012 onwards, Google has acquired more than one company every week on average. Google has spent tens of billions of dollars on buying global companies such as Motorola, Waze, YouTube … to name a few.
Take a look at this example:
Waze
Year: 2013
Cost: $996 million
Waze is a smartphone navigation app, which includes real-time traffic updates from users. Waze is unlike Google Maps in that it is solely for driving. This acquisition allowed Google to access 50 million people who use Waze, which can now be served ads from local businesses from Google’s advertising network.
“At a minimum, they might have a great conversation. And maybe they’ll hit on an idea for our users that hasn’t been thought of yet.”
Fact 3. Google processes on average over 40,000 search queries every second, which results in over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. The chart below measures the amount of searches each year throughout Google’s history:
The question you might be asking is what exactly are people searching for on Google? Let’s take a look.
Here is a closer look of the top 10 most searched keywords and most asked questions on Google:
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