Number crunching at Google

MUMBAI, INDIA: In a world dominated by numbers, Google has managed to retain the top spot. Here are the numbers that prove the point.

In 1998, Google served 10,000 search queries per day which rose to 3.5 million queries per day in September 1999.

In mid-2000, the search volume had increased fivefold, reaching 18 million queries and by April 2004, users were submitting more than 200 million queries to Google every day.

In 2006, Google served more than 10,000 search queries per second. Six year later in August 2012, Google's search engine found more than 30 trillion unique URLs on the Web, crawled 20 billion sites a day, and processed 100 billion searches every month (an average of 3.3 billion searches per day and over 38,000 per second).

In 2012, the search engine giant served 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages. Overall, Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average.

On the other hand on YouTube, the company has seen multi-fold jump in traffic ever since it uploaded titled “Me at the zoo” on February 14, 2005. Four years later in October 2009, YouTube witnessed one billion daily video views that increased to four billion per day in January 2012.

Courtesy PSY_Gangnam Style, Google got its first ever spike in You Tube, registered one-billion views in 2012.

Today YouTube is localized in 75 countries and available in 61 languages , has more than 1 1 billion users, 300 hours of video is uploaded every minute and half of YouTube views are on mobile devices.

Little wonder, Google leads the market with 66.74 percent sign-ups!!