Google Facts

This page has been created to help answer the numerous questions relating to the Google search engine. Here are some fast facts:

• FACT: 4.8 billion searches are conducted through Google per month*
   
• FACT: 160 million searches per day
   
• FACT: Google makes up 59.7 per cent of all searches online
   
• FACT: 8.1 billion searches per month carried out worldwide (on all search engines)
   
• FACT: 18.9 billion pages on the Google index
   
• FACT: "Google" is actually a misspelling of the word "googol" meaning 10¹⁰⁰

* results from September 2008