Google has put out an “Under The Hood” page to give people a look at what goes into making it a successful search engine. Here are a few wild statistics we learned:
- Google handles more than 1 billion searches each day.
- More than 1,000 man-years have gone into developing the Google search algorithm.
- Since 2003, Google has answered 450 Billion new unique queries.
- Every search query 1,500 miles on average to get the answer back to the user.
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Over 1 Billion Searches Daily
There are more than 1 billion searches each day on Google.
Unique Queries
20% of unique queries are new to us every day.
450 Billion Unique Queries
Since 2003 Google has answered 450 Billion new unique queries – searches we have never seen before.
Over 1,500 Miles To Get The Answer
Every query has to travel on average 1,500 miles to get the answer back to the user.
Waiting time
More than 1,000 man-years have gone into developing the Google search algorithm.
Scale
Over the past year, we increased our index size by billions of documents. Our Caffeine index is more than 100 million gigabytes.
There’s an accompanying video for more behind-the-scenes details, such as the advent of Google’s “did you mean” spelling suggestions:
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