Google is our best friend! Everyone knows Google. In fact, Google is so popular that “Google” has become synonymous with web searches.
Just how many people use Google for search is a bit of a mystery. According to Internet Live Stats, Google now processes over 40,000 search queries globally every second on the average. These queries vary from being academic and advanced, to very ordinary and weird.
Below are the top 10 questions which made it to the top of Google as the most frequently asked during 2018 (with average search number per month):
- when are the nba playoffs – 5,000,000
- where’s my refund – 4,090,000
- what is my ip address – 1,830,000
- how to screenshot on mac – 1,500,000
- who is the richest man in the world – 673,000
- is water wet – 450,000
- are jordans nike – 450,000
- why is the sky blue – 165,000
- can dogs eat apples – 74,000
- does he like me – 74,000
Google uses a computer program called a ‘web crawler’ that looks at the billions of websites available on the World Wide Web and examines their content to find ‘keywords’. Then it indexes these to make the websites easier for the search engine to find. So if you type the word ‘holidays’ in the search box, for instance, Google will then show you all the websites with holiday information.
The name Google was chosen for its resemblance to the word googol – a number consisting of a numeral one followed by a hundred zeroes — as a reference to the vast amount of information in the world.
Google’s self-stated mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
