Things you didn't know about Google Search

Gone are the days when the word " Google " merely means a search engine. But just put aside the inventions of self-driving cars or smart lenses, search is still the " piece of clothing " and the main source of income for Google. Here are some interesting facts about Google Search that you may not know.

First, travel back in time and return to Google 's search page image in 1997 .

By 1998, the same year that Google officially launched the website, users had to search 500,000 times a day . Now Google search numbers are 2.3 million times per second .

That means monthly numbers equivalent to 100,000,000 searches .

With each search, Google takes a look at more than 200 factors before giving the best results to users with any questions within 1/8 second .

People rely on Google services so much that when all of them collapse about 5 minutes in 2013, worldwide Internet traffic drops by 40% .

Each Google search index contains more than 100 million Gigabytes of data and will take 100,000 Terabytes so that individual drives can hold the same amount of data.

Although 69% of Internet users use Google Chrome browser almost never need to type Google.com, Google still owns many domains that have typed misspellings such as Gooogle.com, Gogle.com, Google.com and more. Google also owns 466453.com .

Google creates products with the hope of bringing them to millions, or even billions of people. But the company also does important projects towards a small group of users. A group of Google members from many countries have spent more than 4 years working with representatives from the Cherokee region to bring this language into the search engine (It is also available on both Gmail, Chromebooks and Android).

Since October 2015, more than half of Google searches have been done on phones.

If you want to access your digital database, you can visit Google.com/history and see every search related to your account, from web search to search history. or YouTube viewing history. Google also allows downloading and deleting information if you wish. (The illustration below shows my search list for the costume article of Barack Obama and Mark Zukerberg, you can see the options in the right corner of the interface to view the search history by date or download. , delete history . Click here to see your search results).

Although strange projects like using hot air balloons to connect WiFi to remote areas (the intention of Google X Project Loon project) is much more attractive than ads, the ads are still bones. live of this business. In 2015, advertising revenue accounted for nearly 90% of Google's revenue .

Author: Jilian D'Onfro