Google Facts
Google averages almost 3 billion searches per day.
There are 40,000 Google searches every second, translating to 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide.
A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer.
16 – 20% of the searches Google gets each day have never been Googled before.
The most expensive keyword for Google Adwords is “Insurance” – $54.91 Cost-Per-Click (according to WordStream).
The world record for the fastest time to log into Gmail is 1.16.
Internet History
January 1, 1983, is considered the official birthday of the Internet.
The first webcam video is from the University of Cambridge, and the subject of the video is a coffee pot.
Symbolics.com was the first registered domain.
The first website is still online (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)
ATMs, which date back to 1974, are considered the first significant Internet of Things objects.
In 1990, the first search engine, “Archie Query Form”, was launched.
The first spam email sent so far was from a computer salesman named Gary Thuerk.
One of the inventors of the web as we know it, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Internet Statistics
The current estimate of computer network consumers is about 3.26 billion general, or less than half of Earth’s population.
Asia has the highest percentage of users, 49%.
There are 1.95 billion websites on the internet.
As of 2023, the Internet hit another landmark, reaching 5.1 billion users and 64.4% of the world population.
60% Of Internet Use Is Mobile.
There Were 3 Zettabytes of Internet Traffic in 2020.
200 billion emails are sent every day.
YouTube uploads 72 hours of video every single minute. Yes, it is mostly people’s pets.
Cybercrime costs $3.5 billion for US businesses in 2019.
File sharing and media streaming account for more than half of Internet traffic.
Most of the Internet use is not done by humans but by malware and Internet bots, which account for two-thirds of Internet activity.
Mobile social media users are the fastest-growing segment of the internet today.
Internet Terms
The term “Internet” was first used to describe the growing network of interconnected computers worldwide.
1989 was a big year for Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who coined WorldWideWeb while working at CERN in Switzerland.
The term SURFING the internet was coined in 1992 by New York librarian Jean Armor Polly, aka Net Mom.
“Wi-Fi” Does Not Mean Anything. Sure, “wi” stands for wireless, but that last part? It stands for nothing except “the naming consultants liked the pun on hi-fi.”