| Statistic Verification |
| Source: Google Official History, Comscore |
| Research Date: 1.1.2014 |
| Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. The first funding for Google was an August 1998 contribution of US$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2012 Google hit $50 billion in revenue. |
| Year | Annual Number of Google Searches | Average Searches Per Day |
| 2013 | 2,161,530,000,000 | 5,922,000,000 |
| 2012 | 1,873,910,000,000 | 5,134,000,000 |
| 2011 | 1,722,071,000,000 | 4,717,000,000 |
| 2010 | 1,324,670,000,000 | 3,627,000,000 |
| 2009 | 953,700,000,000 | 2,610,000,000 |
| 2008 | 637,200,000,000 | 1,745,000,000 |
| 2007 | 438,000,000,000 | 1,200,000,000 |
| 2000 | 22,000,000,000 | 60,000,000 |
| 1998 | 3,600,000 *Googles official first year | 9,800 |