9 Remarkable Stats on Google

For something I’m working on, I compiled a bunch of stats on Google (sorry, I didn’t intend to blog it and so I didn’t capture all the links, but I found the collection so compelling I thought I’d share it):

• Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” – Times of London, 1/29/06
• Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise.
• Google was searched 4.4 billion times in the U.S. alone in October, 2007 (three times Yahoo), says Nielsen. Average searches per searcher: 40.7.
• Google’s sites had 112 million U.S. visitors in November, 2007, says Nielsen.
• Google’s traffic was up 22.4% in 2007 over 2006, according to Comscore.
• Google earned $15 billion revenue and $6.4 billion profit in 2007, a profit margin of 26.9%. Its revenue was up 57% in the last quarter of 2007 over 2006, says Yahoo Finance. As of late 2007, its stock was up 53% in a year. The company has a market capitalization of $207.6 billion.
• Google controls 79% of the pay-per-click ad market, according to RimmKaufman. It controls 40% of all online advertising, according to web site HipMojo.
• Google employed almost 16,000 people at the end of 2007, a 50% increase over the year before.
• Google became the No. 1 brand in the world in 2007, according to Millward Brown Brandz Top 100.

Not that we didn’t know this already. But the stats still amaze me.

Comments

[Gilbert:]

See bullet point 6 profit margin should be 43%, truly amazing numbers!!

2007 Dec 30 10:43 AM

[jaimo:]

Also, Google was rated #1 place to work in 2007 by Fortune magazine. By the way this is the first year Google was elgible for the list.

2007 Dec 30 08:27 PM

[Swampthing:]

If Google were to offer consumers a "one click" mobile navigation application, a sort of easy button, to the physical world around them.

Develop a mobile device.

Develop the 700 spectrum where wireless is seemless.

IMO, There would be no competition.

2007 Dec 30 08:36 PM