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Google Statistics and Facts

Google, Inc.

Internet related services and products

  • Company Type

    Public

  • Parent organization

    Alphabet Inc.

  • CEO

    Mr. Sundar Pichai

  • Number of Employees

    139,995 full-time employees as of 2021

  • Established

    4th September, 1998

  • Subsidiaries

    Google, Calico, Chronicle, GV, CapitalG, Verily, Waymo, X, Loon and Google Fiber

  • Product

    Web-based products, Development tools, Operating systems, Desktop applications, Mobile applications, Hardware, and Services

  • Headquarters

    California, US

  • Geographical Presence

    Worldwide

  • website

    Google.com

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%.

Most Visited Platform

RankCompanyIndustryHeadQuarter
1GoogleSearchMountain View, California, US
2AmazonE-commerceSeattle, WA, US
3FacebookSocialMenlo Park, CA, US
4TencentSocialShenzhen, Guangdong, China
5AlibabaE-commerceHangzhou, Zhejiang, China
6BaiduSearchBeijing, China
7Princeline GroupTravelNorwalk, CT, US
8eBayE-commerceSan Jose, CA, US
9NetflixEntertainmentLos Gatos, CA, US
10Expedia Inc.TravelBelievue, Washington, US
11RakutenE-commerceTokyo, Japan
12Salesforce.comCloud ComputingSan Francisco, CA, US
13YahooSearch EngineSunnyvala, CA, US
14ODIGEOTravelBarcelona, Spain
15NetEaseOnline ServiceGuangzhou, Guangdong, China
16ZalandoE-commerceBerlin, Germany
17GrouponE-commerceChicago, Illinois, US
18LinkedInSocialMountain View, California, US
19TwitterSocialSan Francisco, CA, US
20Naver CorporationSearch EngineSeoul, South Korea

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.

Google Updates to the Search Engine Algorithm

DateUpdate
16 November, 2003
Florida Update
1 September, 2005
Jagger Update
15 December 2005
Big daddy Update
18 January 2009
Vince Update
10 August 2009
Caffeine Update
28 April, 2010
MayDay Update
23 February 2011
Panda Update
11 April 2011
Panda Update 2.0
9 May 2011
Panda Update 2.1
21 June 2011
Panda Update 2.2
23 July 2011Panda Update 2.3
12 August 2011Panda Update 2.4
28 September 2011Panda Update 2.5
19 October 2011Panda Update 3.0
3 November 2011Freshness Update
18 November 2011Panda Update 3.1
18 January 2012
Panda Update 3.2
19 January 2012
Page Layout Update
27 February 2012
Venice Update
23 March 2012Panda Update 3.4
19 April 2012Panda Update 3.5
24 April 2012
Penguin Update
27 April 2012Panda Update 3.6
26 May 2012
Penguin Update 1.1
8 June 2012
Panda update 3.7
25 June 2012
Panda Update 3.8
24 July 2012Panda Update 3.9
20 August 2012
Panda Update 3.9.1
18 September 2012Panda Update 3.9.2
27 September 2012Panda Update
28 September 2012Exact Match Domain Update
5 October 2012
Penguin Update 1.2
9 October 2012
Page Layout Update
5 November 2012Panda Update
21 November 2012Panda Update
21 December 2012
Panda Update
22 January 2013Panda Update
22 May 2013
Penguin Update 2.0
11 June 2013
Payday Loan Update
26 September 2013
Hummingbird Update
4 October 2013
Penguin Update 2.1
6 February 2014
Page Layout Refresh
16 May 2014
Payday Loan Update 2.0
20 May 2014
Panda Update 4.0
12 June 2014
Payday Loan Update 3.0
24 July 2014
Pigeon Update
23 September 2014
Panda Update 4.1
17 October 2014
Penguin Update 3.0
21 April 2015
Mobile-Friendly Update
3 May 2015
Quality Update
17 July 2015
Panda Update 4.2
26 October 2015
RankBrain
11 January 2016
Panda Core Algorithm Incorporation
12 May 2016
Mobile-Friendly Update
1 June 2016
Quality Update
23 September 2016
Penguin Update 4.0 & Core Algorithm Integration
10 January 2017
Intrusive Interstitials Update
7 March 2017
Fred
17 May 2017
Quality Update
12 December 2017
Maccabees Update
9 March 2018
Broad Core Algorithm Update
16 April 2018
Broad Core Algorithm Update
1 August 2018
Broad Core Algorithm Update
12 March 2019
March 2019 Core Update
2 June 2019
June 2019 Core Update
24 September 2019
Broad Core Algorithm Update
25 October 2019
BERT Update
22 January 2020
Featured Snippet Deduplication
4 May 2020
May 2020 Core Update
Source: Market.us

Google LLC – List of Some Mergers and Acquisitions

Aquisation DateGoogle CompanyBusinessCountryUsed as or Integrated with
December 10, 2018Sigmoid LabsIndian Railway Train TrackingINR
November 28, 2018WorkbenchEducation Technology FirmUSAndroid
October 2, 2018OnwardMachine Laerning & Natural Language ProcessingUS
September 19, 2018SenosisHealth MonitoringUSNest Labs
August 6, 2018GraphicsFuzzGPU ReliabityUSAndroid
May 9, 2018VelostrataCloud Migration, Google Cloud PlatformISRGoogle Cloud Platform
March 27, 2018TenorGIF Image SearchUSGoogle Image
October 11, 201760dbPodcastsUSGoogle Play Music, Google Podcasts
October 9, 2017Relay MediaAMP ConverterUSAccelerated Mobile Pages
September 26, 2017BitiumSingle Sign-on & Identity MangementUSGoogle Cloud Platform
September 21, 2017HTC (portion)Talent & Inntellectual Property LicensesTWNGoogle Pixel
August 16, 2017AIMatterComputer VisionBLRYouTube
July 12, 2017Halli LabsArtificial IntellegenceIND
May 10, 2017Owlchemy LabsVirtual reality StudioUSGoogle Classroom
May 14, 2017CaskBig data, HadoopUKGoogle Cloud Platform
March 9, 2017AppBridgeProductivity SuiteUSGoogle VR
March 8, 2017KaggleData ScienceUSGoogle Cloud Platform
January 19, 2017FabricMobile App PlatformUSFirebase
January 5, 2017Limes AudioVoice CommunicationSWEGoogle Due & Google Hangouts

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

Google Products

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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