By 2012, about how many searches was Google handling per day?
Answermore than 3.5 billion
By 2012, Google was processing more than 3.5 billion searches every single day.
Source: Wikipedia, Google Search (2012) en.wikipedia.org
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Search facts & stats
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Going deeper
By around 2015, about what share of Google searches came from mobile phones?
Answernearly 60%
By early 2015, nearly 60% of Google searches were happening on mobile phones, a milestone that reshaped search design.
Source: Google, via Wikipedia (2015) en.wikipedia.org
By May 2016, about what share of mobile Google queries were done using voice search?
Answerabout 20%
By May 2016, roughly 20% of mobile Google search queries were conducted using voice search, a fast-growing input method.
Source: Wikipedia, Google Search (2016) en.wikipedia.org
Expert level
About how many searches per second does Google reportedly process at scale?
Answerabout 40,000 per second
At scale, Google is estimated to process about 40,000 searches every second worldwide.
Source: Wikipedia, Google Search (2020) en.wikipedia.org
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