more than 3.5 billion
By 2012, about how many searches was Google handling per day?
By 2012, Google was processing more than 3.5 billion searches every single day.
Source: Wikipedia, Google Search (2012) en.wikipedia.org
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By around 2015, about what share of Google searches came from mobile phones?
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about 40,000 per second
About how many searches per second does Google reportedly process at scale?
At scale, Google is estimated to process about 40,000 searches every second worldwide.
Source: Wikipedia, Google Search (2020) en.wikipedia.org
about 20%
By May 2016, about what share of mobile Google queries were done using voice search?
By May 2016, roughly 20% of mobile Google search queries were conducted using voice search, a fast-growing input method.
Source: Wikipedia, Google Search (2016) en.wikipedia.org
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