Google Statistics and Facts Last updated on: August 4, 2022

Google Statistics: Google LLC was founded by Mr. Sergey Brin and Mr. Larry Page in 1998 and was a privately held company. Later on 19 August 2004, an initial public offering (IPO) was held in which the first sale of stock was issued by a company to the public and registered on the stock market. The company went public at US$ 85 per share and offered nearly 19,606,052 shares. These shares were mainly sold through the format of an online auction by using a system developed by Morgan Stanley & Credit Suisse. The sale of US$ 1.67 billion offered Google LLC a capitalization of over US$ 23 billion, which increased to US$ 397 billion by January 2014.

This IPO event proved to be beneficial to many Google Employees as a majority of shares of approximately 271 million were under the control of the company, and several employees of Google LLC became paper millionaires, instantly. Moreover – Yahoo! – a web service provider and a competitor of Google LLC benefitted as it owned Google LLC company’s 8.4 Mn shares prior to the IPO event held.

In 2015, American multinational company Alphabet, Inc. was formed as the parent company of Google LLC, and other companies that were previously owned by Google LLC. In addition, Google LLC was reorganized as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. on October 2, 2015. Alphabet’s portfolio incorporates several industries, including life sciences, technology, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries include GV, CapitalG, Google, Google Fiber, Verily Chronicle, Waymo, Loon Calico, and X. Alphabet, Inc. is known as a collection of various companies, out of which the largest business segment is Google LLC in terms of revenue.

Google LLC is a leading US-based multinational Internet company, which offers digital products and services including software, hardware components, cloud computing, advertising technologies, and online search. In October 2019, Google LLC was ranked first amongst the most visited multi-platform web in the US with nearly 259 Mn of visitors in the same year. In 2019, the parent company – Alphabet Inc. – registered revenue of US$ 160,743 Mn.

In the year 2020, Alphabet Inc.’s overall revenue was US$ 181.69 Bn, which increased to US$ 160.74 Bn in 2019. Alphabet Inc. generates its maximum amount of revenue from the google advertising segment. In 2020 the google advertising segment contributed US$ 146,924 Million in the total revenue.

In 2018 registered revenue of Google LLC was 136.36 US$ Bn, which raised up to 160.74 US$ Bn in 2019. The percentage increase in revenue from 2018 to 2019 was 17.9%.

Google LLC owns over 200 companies, which involve robotics, mapping, video broadcasting, telecommunications, and advertising. The top four companies owned by Google are Google Maps, AdSense, DoubleClick, and YouTube.

The Parent company, Alphabet, Inc., operates through two key business segments namely: Google and Other Bets. Through its Google business segment, the company offers main products such as Android, Chrome, Ads, Google Cloud, Google Maps, Commerce, Hardware, Search, Google Play, and YouTube. Through its Other Bets – the company offers a mixture of several operating segments and businesses such as Access, CapitalG, Calico, Verily, Waymo, GV, Nest, and X. In addition, revenues from the other bets are primarily generated through the sales of Nest products and services, sales of Internet and TV services via Fiber, and licensing and R&D services via Verily.

The majority of the company’s revenue is contributed by the advertising segment which includes incomes from traffic generated by search distribution partners who use Google.com as their default search in toolbars, browsers, etc. In 2020, the google advertising segment contributed 80.90% share of the overall revenue of Google LLC.

The company operates in four regions namely: the United States, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, and Other Americas. In 2020, the US Region contributed the maximum share of the overall revenue of Alphabet Inc. Share of the US region was 47% 2020, followed by Europe and the Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, and Other Americas.

In 2020, Google Sites’ advertising revenue accounted for US$ 146,920 million. Google LLC offers a wide range of Web-based products, Development tools, Operating systems, Desktop applications, Mobile applications, Hardware, and Services. In addition, Google owns and offers products such as Google Play, Google Maps, Gmail, and YouTube, which are among the leading social networking sites. Moreover, subsidiaries of the company include Google, Calico, Chronicle, GV, CapitalG, Verily, Waymo, X, Loon, and Google Fiber.

Facebook was the top leading social networking site with approximately 2400 million monthly active users in January 2019. Google+ had approximately 395 million monthly active users up to January 2019. Due to data breaches and user data leaks or spam comments and millions of spam links in Google+ google decide to close the Google+ Service by 2nd April 2019.

Google LLC Offers a Wide Range of Products and Services for Various Applications:

1. Watch, Listen and Play – YouTube, Google Play Music, Chromecast, Google Play Movies, and YouTube TV
2. Browser – Chrome
3. Search – Search, Finance, Flights, News, Scholar, Patents, Books, Images, Videos, Hotels, Translate
4. Navigation – Maps, Waze
5. Productivity tools – Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms
6. Social & communications – Gmail, Allo, Hangouts, Google Duo, Google+, Messages, Translate
7. Storage and organization – Photos, Contacts, Calendar, Keep
8. Personal Assistant – Google voice assistant
9. Services – Fiber, DNS, Project Fi, Google pay
10. Devices – Pixel 3, Connected Home, Pixel Slate, Google Wifi
11. For Business – Google Ads, AdSense, Analytics, Google My Business, Google Survey

What’s New in 2018?

• In January 2018, Alphabet, Inc. acquired Redux – smartphone technology, which is specialized in turning smartphone screens into speakers.
• In October 2018, Google LLC shut down Google+ after failing to disclose a user data leak
• In November 2018, Google LLC acquired Workbench, which is a US-based company, that offers an online library of projects and lessons.
• Under this acquisition, the company focuses on integrating the Workbench tool with Google Classroom. In addition, currently, Google Classroom is one of the most widely used online educational tools, which lets parents, teachers, and students manage class discussions, assignments, and quizzes.
• In 2018, Google Search and Advertising tools helped generate $335 billion in economic activity for more than 1.3 billion millions of businesses, website publishers, and nonprofits across the United States.
• Many website publishers, non-profit organizations, and 40,000 companies in the country benefited from the use of Google Ads and AdSense advertising tools.
• In 2018, Google sent more than 14 billion dollars to music publishers around the world.
• As of November 2018, in the US, Google connects people to businesses nearby more than 9 billion times, including over 1 billion phone calls and 3 billion direction requests to stores every month.

What’s New in 2019-2020?

• On March 19, 2019, Google announced that it would enter the video game market, launching a cloud gaming platform called Stadia.
• Google is planning to release the next-generation Chromecast in 2020.
• Google is planning to bring back Google Home speakers.

Launches and Highlights in 2019

• Google Duo – a new video calling app was launched along with its partnered app Google Allo – an instant messaging mobile app in 2016. On 25 January 2019, the company announced that it may launch a web client for its Duo video chat service.
• On 14 January 2019, SOTI Inc., which is a Canada-based provider of mobile and IoT device management solutions, partnered with Google LLC, in order to remotely supports and manages Android devices via the entire lifecycle through its SOTI Android+ technology.
• According to the CB insights, till September 2019, Google was second in AI Startups acquisition after Apple with 14 AI startups acquisition since 2010.
• EU commission imposed a 1.5 billion euros antitrust fine on Google for anticompetitive restrictions on third-party websites.
• In October 2019, Google announced the Pixel 4, The company also announced the second generation of its Pixel Buds, a line of wireless earbuds with the Google Assistant built-in that also support Google Translate.
• In November 2019, Google released a controller for Stadia.
• In April 2019 former Mozilla executive Jonathan Nightingale accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging the Firefox browser over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.
• In September 2019, Google’s chief executive announced plans for a $2 billion wind and solar investment, the biggest renewable energy deal in corporate history.
• Google Allo – Google’s instant messaging app. Discontinued on March 12, 2019

Usage Statistics

• In 2021, there are 4.1 million search queries, 63,000 search queries done per second, 230 million per hour, and 5.6 billion per day which is more than 2.5 Trillion searches per year worldwide.
• In 2021, Google has a 94.6% share of worldwide mobile search traffic and 86.2% of desktop search traffic.
• In 2021, Google globally accounted for 91.94% of search engine market share traffic.
• In the US, Google has a market share of 87.57% worldwide, 79.47% of desktop share traffic, and 93.86% of mobile search traffic
• In April 2020, Google processed 12.7 billion search queries in the US, accounting for 62.3 percent of the US total desktop search queries and the leading mobile search provider in the US with a 95.04% market share
• Daily visitors to Google are approximately 620 Mn.
• According to the Datareportal, in June 2020, the top 10 search queries on Google were: Google, Facebook, Youtube, You, Weather, News, Amazon, CoronaVirus, Translate, and Instagram.
• In July 2019, Google accounted for 95 percent of US mobile search visits and 93 percent of overall U.S. organic search engine visits.
• As of May 2019, Gmail is a product that 1.5 billion users rely on, to get things done every day.
• As of September 2019, People have already asked Google Lens more than a billion questions about things they see.
• Google sends 10 billion+ clicks per month to news publishers’ websites.
• As of May 2019, 2.5 million web publishers use AdSense to make money through their content on the web.
• According to a survey, in Europe, the news content linked through Google was clicked more than 8 billion times a month 3,000 clicks per second to the publisher’s websites in Europe resulting in each click between 4-6 euro cents.
• In the US, Google helps drive over 1 billion direct connections, like calls and online reservations, for businesses nationwide every month.
• Google owns its own common misspellings domains such as www.gooogle.com, www.googlr.com, and www.gogle.com
• Google runs over 1 Mn computer servers in data centers around the world.
• Last year, Google rejected more than 10 million ads that we suspected of copyright infringement.
• Around 35% of clicks for U.S. businesses, advertising on Google, came from outside the country.
• As of May 2019, about 80% of traffic from Google’s Showcase Shopping ads to retailer sites is from new visitors discovering the brands.
• To date, Google has over 2 billion store offers mapped to physical store locations globally, discoverable by their current local ad formats like local inventory ads.
• Google Station serves more than 10 million people in 1,300 locations across India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Brazil.
• Google Assistant is now on more than one billion devices, available in more than 30 languages across 80 countries.
• As of 2019, more than 20 million people visit Google Account every day to review their settings, using Privacy Checkup.
• As of 2019, 90 million teachers and students are using G Suite for Education worldwide.
• Google has a database of over 4 billion credentials that have been compromised through various data breaches
• According to a 2018 Survey, around 72% of consumers in Indonesia see Google Search as the online gateway for personal loan information and the second most helpful source for Financial Services information, after the bank branches

Fun Facts

• Google.com domain went online in the year 1997.
• Google founders originally named it ‘Backrub’.
• The name ‘Google’ is derived from the mathematical term ‘googol’ – basically one with a hundred zeros following it
• Top 10 global Google searches in 2019
  1. India vs South Africa
  2. Cameron Boyce
  3. Copa America
  4. Bangladesh vs India
  5. iPhone 11
  6. Game of Thrones
  7. Avengers: Endgame
  8. Joker
  9. Notre Dame
  10. ICC Cricket World Cup
• Top searches which provide funny suggestions on google include
  1. “who would win in a fight between…”
  2. “I think I might be a…”
  3. “why are the…”
• 88 languages can be used on the Google home page.
• Google is the first place people go to discover a new brand or product.
• Presently about 135,301 employees are working for Google, and the new employees are called ‘Nooglers’.
• As of 2020, Google has 32% of female employees and 68% of male employees worldwide according to the Statista survey.
• Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of 1 company approximately every week.
• Every day, hundreds of millions of people do shopping-related searches on Google.
• Alphabet has a market value of 863.2 billion US$.
• The brand value of Google in 2020 is 323.601 billion US$.
• Google search handles over 1 Bn searches per day.
• The First Google Computer Was Made from Lego.
• Google received one of its biggest honors when the Oxford English Dictionary officially added “Google” as a verb in 2006.
• Google Rents Goats To Maintain The Grounds of Its California Headquarters.
• Gmail was launched on April Fool’s Day.
• There are more than 3.5 billion Google searches every day.
• 76% of all global searches take place on Google.
• Google Search Index contains more than 100,000,000 GB.
• More than 60% of Google searches come from mobile devices.
• 16-20% of all annual Google search results are new.
• In 2020, there were 6.9 billion searches on Google every day. Or a staggering 2.5 trillion searches per year worldwide.

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