Google is now seeing 5 trillion searches annually

SearchEngineLand.com published a piece on Google searches. For the first time since 2016 Google publicly shared how many searches they process a year. The number comes in at more than 5 trillion. Back in 2016 it was noted as more than 2 trillion searches.

From the article:

By the numbers. Google revealed the new figure in a blog post today, saying it is based on internal Google data:

• “We already see more than 5 trillion searches on Google annually.”

Google added another tidbit in the same blog post: that “the volume of commercial queries has increased” since the launch of AI Overviews. However, Google didn’t share any data or a percentage to explain how much commercial queries have increased.

Searches per second, minute, day and month. Now that we have an updated figure, we can also estimate how many Google searches there are pretty much down to the second. Here’s a breakdown based on this new Google data point:

Read all the data on SearchEngineLand.com.