Google Facts and Statistics

The Googleopoly Strategy


SearchEngineStatsSearch Engine Statistics

•   Ask: 245 million unique monthly visitors as of 2014

•   Yahoo!: 300 million unique monthly visitors as of 2014

•   Bing: 350 million unique monthly visitors as of 2014

•   Google: 1.1 billion unique monthly visitors as of 2014

Google Statistics

•   67.5% of people using the internet use Google

•   87% of U.S. Google keyword searches on mobile returned video results

•   As of June 11, 2014, 64% of web traffic came from organic search as compared to the 6% that came from paid search

•   Google was started as a research project back in 1996

•   The Google domain, www.google.com, was registered September 15, 1997

•   Google Adwords was launched October 13, 2000

•   Google AdSense was launched June 18, 2003

•   Google purchased YouTube November 13, 2006

•   Gmail launched April 1, 2004

•   Google+ Launched June 28, 2011

Google Subsidiaries

•   YouTube: YouTube is a video sharing platform that was created in 2005. Content is user generated by individuals or corporations. Music videos, blogging videos, educational videos, TV clips and more are shared on the social network.

•   Nest Labs: A Company based in California that deals with home automation. It designs self- enabled/ Wi-Fi programmable smoke detectors and thermostats.

•   Songza: A platform where you can listen to music. Playlists are developed by music experts.

•   Android: An operating service for TVs, mobile phones and tablets. The system works with technology that makes it easy for you to access all your Google accounts, ex: Gmail.

•   Feedburner: This web feed management tool was launched in 2004. This tool provides custom RSS feeds for content publishers that are web based.