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Here in this post we will be talking about 2017 - The year gone.
The Tech gaint and the biggest search engine without any doubt is GOOGLE. How big is google search?
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Your wild guesses woudn't reach there.
Let me tell you how big it is .. SOME STATS:

Google processes over 40,000 search queries on an average. You can visualize it here.
Those numbers speak for themselves.

Google processes over 3.5 billion searches a day which translates to over 1.2 trillion searches per year.
The search graph is showing an exponential increase as can be seen below.

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According to a 2013 comScore public release, as of December 2012, Google enjoyed a 65.2% share of web search volume worldwide, with 114.7 billion searches that month.

Baidu has a 8.2% share (14.5 billion searches in December 2012).
Yahoo 4.9% (8.6 billions searches in December 2012).
Yandex 2.8% (4.8 billions searches December 2012).
Microsoft sites (mostly Bing) 2.5% (4.5 billions searches December 2012).

At the end of each year google releases top and trending in multiple categories. So let us take a look at what was trending in 2017 according to google.

Let us see what was trending in 2017 - Global

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