Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 92.18%
The search engine is so popular that it’s many times larger than all of the world’s other search engines combined.
Specifically, Google currently holds a whopping 92.18 percent of the worldwide search engine market share.
The search engine was born in 1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but here’s the fun part: the two partners actually offered to sell Google in 1999 to internet company Excite for just $750,000.
Excite rejected the offer and have spent the last 20 years kicking themselves.
Today, Google and its parent company Alphabet are worth a staggering $750+ billion.
As a result, Page, Alphabet’s CEO, is the eighth-richest person in the world with a reported net worth of $53.5 billion, and Brin, Alphabet’s President, is the ninth-richest person with a reported net worth of $52.1 billion.
Also, fun fact: The name “Google” is derived from the word “googol.”
A googol is a mathematical term meaning “10 raised to the power of 100” or 1 with 100 zeros after it.
These days, Google is far more than a search engine.
The company has developed many other software solutions such as Google Drive. It owns YouTube, has developed a line of smartphones and laptops, and has even created self-driving cars.
Google also powers other search engines – including Ask, which is the sixth largest search engine in the world.
The search engine giant is also constantly updating its search engine results page to provide a range of helpful content formats, such as Google’s Featured Snippets.
All hail the mighty Google.
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