In February 2025, Verizon Media processed 2.51 million online search queries in the United States, and market leader Google processed over 14.7 million search queries. In total, Google accounted for 60 percent of the U.S. desktop search queries. Google was also the leading mobile search provider in the United States, accounting for around 95 percent of the market as of March 2024.

As of March 2025, Google represented 79.1 percent of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents the lowest share ever recorded by the search engine in these devices for over two decades. Meanwhile, its long-time competitor Bing accounted for 12.21 percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over 2.9 percent each. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of 2.02 trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than 63 percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over 33 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 21 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.

Google Search Statistics 2023

• Google is the most searched website in the World.
• Google receives more visitors than any other site. Google is accessed 89.3 trillion times per month.
• Google is used by billions of people every day to conduct their searches. Google is much more than a simple search engine.
• Google provides many other services. Google Shopping and Google News also feature. Google Mail, Google's popular email service, is included.
• Google organic search traffic is 16.3% of the total US searches.

In 2022, Wordle was the most popular Google search in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Spain. By contrast, in Germany and Italy, Ukraine was the most popular search on Google. In Brazil, Google users were interested the most in the 2022 elections.

Wordle!

Launched in October 2021 and purchased by the New York Times in January 2022, Wordle is an online game where players can play only once a day and have to guess a five-letter word in six tries. The game became an instant hit, with a surge of daily users at the beginning of the year. For instance, it was one of the most popular iPhone apps in the United States, being played mostly by millennials. Also in the United Kingdom, the game gained in popularity, with most players using the app every day.

Google search

As the leading search engine in many countries, Google is the most visited multi-platform web property. Indeed, most of Google's revenues come from Google properties, which include the search platform, the traffic generated by search distribution partners using Google.com as their default search in browsers, and the advertising on its own sites.

Generic searches related to Valentine's Day presents made up 23 percent of all Google Valentine's gift searches in Poland in 2020. Only five percent of internet users searched for a present from a specific brand.

The total amount of Google searches related to Valentine's Day in Poland grew by 23.16 percent between 2019 and 2020. More often than the previous year, internet users considered gifting their partner's lingerie (53.31 percent growth) or a spa getaway (52.35 percent growth).

Kuwait Google Search Trends: Online Shopping: Macy's data was reported at 0.000 Score in 11 May 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 10 May 2024. Kuwait Google Search Trends: Online Shopping: Macy's data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 11 May 2024, with 893 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25.000 Score in 09 Jul 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 12 May 2024. Kuwait Google Search Trends: Online Shopping: Macy's data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Kuwait – Table KW.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

When you’re at work or at home, there’s a high chance that you’re going to use Google. You may be using Google to find a plumber for your leaky bathroom sink or see where the best sushi is in town. When you’re on Google, you’re looking for the top results which means you’re not scrolling past page one, unless, you’re desperate. So, getting your company on the first page of Google is extremely important and impactful for success. But, how do you get your business there? Well, here’s how.

Know the Basics

Before you do anything, you need to know the basics of how online marketing and Google search functions. By knowing the basics, you won’t waste time performing outdated tasks or being overcharged by an SEO Agency http://www.whitehatagency.com.au/seo-agency or marketing companies that recognize your lack of knowledge. Education is the key to success.

Use SEO

Search Engine Optimization is the method of attracting online attention and visibility through organic means. In essence, the unpaid search results - the paid search results typically have “sponsored” or “paid advertisement” written below them. But you can naturally drive traffic towards your site just by using the right keywords. Certain keywords will push your content, allowing it to be shown in the top results.

Meet the Google Standards

Google has standards which your website must fulfil prior to appearing as a #1 website in the search results. Google will flag any errors they deem needed fixed and you’re going to want to fix them, for example, broken links. If you don’t meet the standards, they’ll penalize all your pages until you fix them. So, take some time out of your day and make sure your website is fully functioning.

Content is everything

You may invest some top dollars in the look and appeal of your site but at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter what your site looks like. What truly matters is the content as that will drive viewers to your site. The Google search results are designed to provide users with the most relevant material on the web. If your content isn’t providing value to the viewers, your material won’t make it to #1.

Focus on links

Links play an important role when it comes to Google’s ranking system. The way Google works is that it pays attention to the hyperlinks in content to figure out what keywords are tied to the link being used. Though this doesn’t mean your entire article should be made of links, if you use too many they’ll deem it as suspicious activity and your website can be taken from Google.

Google loves mobile-friendly

If you want to come up with a #1 site then you need to show Google that you’re updated and relevant to the current technology. In other words, you need to make your site mobile-friendly. Many users read material while on their way to work, on the bus or on their couch. So, if you’re not catering to smartphones, well, Google isn’t going to favor you.

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In the six months ending March 2024, the United States accounted for 26.95 percent of traffic to the online search website Google.com. India was ranked second, accounting for 4.52 percent of web visits to the platform, with Brazil coming in third place with 4.35 percent.

Between February 10 and March 27, 2020 the highest number of Google searches with the terms coronavirus or COVID-19 were recorded in Switzerland. That was the day on which the Swiss Federal Council decided on special measures to contain the virus in the country. After March 16, while Google searches about the disease once again decreased, media reporting about the coronavirus (COVID-19) peaked on March 19.

Dataset for the paper "Capturing the Aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision in the Google Search Results across 65 U.S. Locations" to appear in the proceedings of ICWSM 2023. Starting on the day of the U.S Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we collected Google Search result pages for 21 days in 65 U.S. locations for a set of almost 1,700 queries. We stored all the SERPs generated by Google. Because the archives containing these SERPs are much larger than the file limits of the Harvard Dataverse, you can find them at this address: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~credlab/icwsm2023/. Instead, in this repository we will share all the files that were created by parsing some of the information in the SERPs: organic search results, top stories, and embedded tweets. We also provide aggregated statistics for the domains appearing in the organic results and the top stories. This dataset can be useful for answering questions about Google Search's algorithms with respect to shaping access to information related to important news events.

Google Search Trends: Online Shopping: Costco data was reported at 0.000 Score in 12 Nov 2022. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Score for 11 Nov 2022. Google Search Trends: Online Shopping: Costco data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Score from Dec 2021 (Median) to 12 Nov 2022, with 347 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 51.000 Score in 16 Dec 2021 and a record low of 0.000 Score in 12 Nov 2022. Google Search Trends: Online Shopping: Costco data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Google Trends. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Myanmar – Table MM.Google.GT: Google Search Trends: by Categories.

As global communities responded to COVID-19, we heard from public health officials that the same type of aggregated, anonymized insights we use in products such as Google Maps would be helpful as they made critical decisions to combat COVID-19. These Community Mobility Reports aimed to provide insights into what changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports charted movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.

Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimising your website so that it ranks higher in the Google search results. SEO produces one of the highest ROIs of any marketing activity you can do. But the SEO industry is dominated by one search engine – Google. Google has the highest market share with 78.83% of all searches coming through Google. Bing has 12.23% and Yahoo just 3.07%.

The (unheralded) first step in many applications of automated text analysis involves selecting keywords to choose documents from a large text corpus for further study. Although all substantive results depend on this choice, researchers usually pick keywords in ad hoc ways that are far from optimal and usually biased. Most seem to think that keyword selection is easy, since they do Google searches every day, but we demonstrate that humans perform exceedingly poorly at this basic task. We offer a better approach, one that also can help with following conversations where participants rapidly innovate language to evade authorities, seek political advantage, or express creativity; generic web searching; eDiscovery; look-alike modeling; industry and intelligence analysis; and sentiment and topic analysis. We develop a computer-assisted (as opposed to fully automated or human-only) statistical approach that suggests keywords from available text without needing structured data as inputs. This framing poses the statistical problem in a new way, which leads to a widely applicable algorithm. Our specific approach is based on training classifiers, extracting information from (rather than correcting) their mistakes, and summarizing results with easy-to-understand Boolean search strings. We illustrate how the technique works with analyses of English texts about the Boston Marathon Bombings, Chinese social media posts designed to evade censorship, and others.

Main dataset (main.csv)

The main file contains an entry (N=28530) per search result in all collected pages. It comprises the following columns:

1. id: Unique identifier of the file (corresponds to the last part of the filename)
2. filename: Name of the file associated with the row (the file is in serp_html.zip)
3. engine: The search engine used (Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar).
4. browser: The web browser used for the search (Firefox or Chrome)
5. region: The geographical region where the search was made.
6. year: The year when the search was made
7. month: The month when the search was made
8. day: The day when the search was made
9. query: The full search query that was used
10. query_type: The type of the search query (health or technology)
11. topic: The topic associated with the search query ('covid vaccines', 'cryptocurrencies', 'internet', 'social media', 'vaccines', 'coffee')
12. trt: Treatment variable associated with the search (benefits or risks).
13. url: The URL of the (article) search result
14. title: The title of the (article) search result.
15. authorship: The author(s) of the (article) search result.
16. abstract_id: Unique identifier for the abstract of the (article) search result which connects with annotated-abstracts_v0.6.xlsx
17. abstract_hash: Hash value of the abstract for data integrity
18. link_n: The total number of results in the search page
19. rank: The rank of the search result on the search engine results page.
20. annotation: Any annotations associated with the (article's abstract) search result. One of: '3. Confirms both benefits and risks', '4. Confirms neither benefits nor risks', '1. Confirms benefits', '2. Confirms risks', '5. Abstract not related to {topic}')
21. valence: -1 for abstracts containing risks, 0 for neutral abstracts, 1 for abstracts only containing benefits

Annotated abstracts (annotated-abstracts_v0.6.xlsx)

Manually annotated abstracts resulting from the searches.

Raw search engine result pages (serp_html.zip)

The zip contains an HTML per search engine result page collected (N=2853). See column filename from the main dataset.

In March 2025, the Google Chrome browser was the leader in the mobile internet browser market, with a share of 66.75 percent. As the runner-up, Apple’s Safari had a market share of around 23 percent. Other contenders in the field include Samsung Internet and Opera. Browser market Around half of the world’s population uses the internet regularly, and web browsers serve as the channel through which users from across the globe access the internet each day. As in the mobile browser market, Chrome is also the dominant figure in the overall web browser market. In December 2024, Chrome for Android and Chrome occupied the top two spots in the global web browser market. Chrome’s dominance is the most prominent in the desktop browser market: in 2024, Google’s popular browser accounted for nearly 67 percent of the market, miles ahead of its competitors. Google Chrome Released in 2008 by Google, Chrome has become one of the tech giant's most successful products over the years, together with their search engine Google Search, mobile operating system Android, e-mail service Gmail, etc. The success of Chrome has led to the expansion of the brand name into the company's other products such as Chrome OS, Chromecast, and Chromebook.

Key YouTube Statistics (Editor’s Choice) YouTube recorded 70 billion monthly active users in March 2023, which includes 55.10% of worldwide active social media users. There have been more than 14 million daily active users currently on YouTube, in the United States of America this platform is accessed by 62% of users. YouTube is touted as the second largest search engine and the second most visited website after Google. Revenue earned by YouTube in the first two quarters of 2023 is around $14.358 billion. In 2023, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music have recorded 80 million subscribers collectively worldwide. YouTube consumers view more than a billion hours of video per day. YouTube has more than 38 million active channels. In the fourth quarter of 2021, YouTube ad revenue has been $8.6 billion. Around 3 million paid subscribers to access YouTube TV. YouTube Premium has around 1 billion paid users. In 2023, YouTube was banned in countries such as China excluding Macau and Hong Kong, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Turkmenistan, and South Sudan. With 166 million downloads, the YouTube app has become the second most downloaded entertainment application across the world after Netflix. With 91 million downloads, YouTube Kids has become the sixth most downloaded entertainment app in the world. Nearly 90% of digital consumers access YouTube in the US, making it the most popular social network for watching video content. Over 70% of YouTube viewership takes place on its mobile application. More than 70% of YouTube video content watched by people is suggested by its algorithm. The average duration of a video on YouTube is 12 minutes. An average YouTube user spends 20 minutes and 23 seconds on the platform daily. Around 28% of YouTube videos that are published by popular channels are in the English language. 77% of YouTube users watch comedy content on the platform. With 247 million subscribers, T-Series has become the most subscribed channel on YouTube. Around 50 million users log on to YouTube every day. YouTube's biggest concurrent views record has been at 2.3 billion from when SpaceX has gone live on the platform to unveil Falcon Heavy Rocket. The majority of YouTube users are in the age group of 15 to 35 years in the US. The male-female ratio of YouTube users is 11:9. Apple INC. has been touted as the biggest advertiser on YouTube in 2020 spending $237.15 million. YouTube produced total revenue of $19.7 billion in 2020. As of 2021, the majority of YouTube users (467 million) are from India. It is the most popular platform in the United States with 74 percent of adult users. YouTube contributes to nearly 25% of mobile traffic worldwide. Daily live streaming on YouTube has increased by 45% in total in 2020. In India, around 225 million people are active on the platform each hour as per the 2021 statistics. YouTube Usage and Viewership Statistics #1. YouTube accounts for more than 2 billion monthly active users Around 2.7 billion users log on to YouTube each month. The number of monthly active users of YouTube is expected to grow even further. #2. Around 14.3 billion people visit the platform every month The number of YouTube visitors is far higher compared to Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram. #3. YouTube is accessible across 100 countries in 80 languages. The platform is widely available across different communities and nations. #4. 53.9% of YouTube users are men and 46.1% of women use the platform As of 2023 statistics, 53.9% of men use the platform and 46.1% of women over 18 years are on YouTube. The share in the number of males and females is 1.38 billion and 1.18 billion respectively. Age Group Male Female 18 to 24 8.5% 6% 25 to 34 11.6% 8.6% 35 to 44 9% 7.5% 45 to 54 6.2% 5.7% 55 to 64 4.4% 4.5% Above 65 4.3% 5.4% #5. 99% of YouTube users are active on other social media networks as well. Fewer than 1% of YouTube users are solely dependent on the platform. #6. Users spend around 20 minutes and 23 seconds per day on YouTube on average It is quite a generous amount of time spent on any social network platform. #7. YouTube is the second most visited site worldwide With more than 14 billion visits per month, YouTube has become the second most visited site in the world. However, its parent company Google is the most visited site across the globe. As per the statistics, YouTube is the third most popular searched word on Google. #8. 694000 hours of video content are streamed on YouTube per minute YouTube has outweighed Netflix as well in terms of streaming video content. #9. Over 81% of total internet users have accessed YouTube #10. Nearly 450 million hours of video content are uploaded on YouTube each hour More than 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube per day. #11. India has the maximum numb

As of the third quarter of 2024, internet users in South Africa spent more than **** hours and ** minutes online per day, ranking first among the regions worldwide. Brazil followed, with roughly **** hours of daily online usage. As of the examined period, Japan registered the lowest number of daily hours spent online, with users in the country spending an average of over **** hours per day using the internet. The data includes the daily time spent online on any device. Social media usage In recent years, social media has become integral to internet users' daily lives, with users spending an average of *** minutes daily on social media activities. In April 2024, global social network penetration reached **** percent, highlighting its widespread adoption. Among the various platforms, YouTube stands out, with over *** billion monthly active users, making it one of the most popular social media platforms. YouTube’s global popularity In 2023, the keyword "YouTube" ranked among the most popular search queries on Google, highlighting the platform's immense popularity. YouTube generated most of its traffic through mobile devices, with about 98 billion visits. This popularity was particularly evident in the United Arab Emirates, where YouTube penetration reached approximately **** percent, the highest in the world.

In the last five years, the web portal industry has recorded significant revenue growth. Industry revenue increased by an average of 3.8% per year between 2019 and 2024 and is expected to reach 12.6 billion euros in the current year. The web portal industry comprises a variety of platforms such as social networks, search engines, video platforms and email services that are used by millions of users every day. These portals enable the exchange of information and communication as well as entertainment. Web portals generate their revenue mainly through advertising, premium services and commission payments. User numbers are rising steadily as more and more people go online and everyday processes are increasingly digitalised.In 2024, industry revenue is expected to increase by 3.2 %. Although the industry is growing, it is also facing challenges, particularly in terms of data protection. Web portals are constantly collecting user data, which can lead to misuse of the collected data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced in the European Union in 2018 has prompted web portal operators to review their data protection practices and amend their terms and conditions in order to avoid fines. The aim of this regulation is to improve the protection of personal data and prevent data misuse.The industry's turnover is expected to increase by an average of 3.6% per year to 15 billion euros over the next five years. Video platforms such as YouTube often generate losses despite high user numbers. The reasons for this are the high costs of operation and infrastructure as well as expenses for copyright issues and compliance. Advertising on video platforms is perceived negatively by users, but is successful when it comes to attracting attention. Politicians are debating the taxation of revenues generated by internationally operating web portals based in tax havens. Another challenge is the copying of concepts, which inhibits innovation in the industry and can lead to legal problems.