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Google has perhaps more than any other company become “The Internet Company.” It’s grown hand in hand with the internet and its entire business model has from the start been totally focused on the internet as a delivery platform.
And let’s face it, Google is a pretty interesting company. In fact, we think it’s so interesting that we put together this infographic with a ton of facts and figures about Google. We’ve been digging through Google’s SEC filings, news articles and the trusty old Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include. We hope you like it!

Updated, Feb 25, 13:40 CET: The first version contained an error, that 270,000 words were written on Blogger per day. It’s per minute, and the infographic has been updated accordingly.
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Twitter announced yesterday that they now have more than 145 million registered users. That’s a lot, but how much is Twitter actually being used? Turns out that there’s more activity on Twitter than ever before, and it keeps increasing.
Twitter processed 2.64 billion tweets this August, an increase of 33% over May. Not a bad increase over just a summer. In August, an average of 85 million tweets passed through Twitter every day.
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It may be the start of a new trend, software that automatically upgrades itself silently in the background without ever bothering users. Google has been doing it successfully with its Chrome web browser, and soon Mozilla will jump on the bandwagon with Firefox.
You may love it or hate it, but for most users, software that automatically upgrades itself can be a blessing, and in more ways than is immediately apparent.
And it’s not just great for users, it’s great for developers because it allows them to innovate and develop at a fast pace, pushing out frequent updates without annoying their users with upgrade notices. In short, automatic upgrades let developers push the pace of innovation.
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The two mobile platforms with the most apps are Google’s Android with around 95,000 apps, and Apple’s iOS with around 250,000 apps.
Those are impressive numbers, but this article isn’t about the sheer number of apps available. Instead, we wanted to focus on a very interesting distinction between the two platforms: The radical difference in the ratio between free and paid apps.
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Do you run a web service or hosting company? Do you like transparency? Then this might be of interest to you.
Service status blogs are becoming increasingly common these days and are usually very appreciated by users. Look no further than Twitter’s famous status blog, or the Google Apps status page. Status blogs (or “status pages”, depending on approach) may look and work differently, but they all serve the same purpose, informing users about service issues.
Now it’s easier than ever before if you want one, or want to make your existing status blog even better.
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From its official launch in October 2009, it took Windows 7 only nine months to pass Vista. Now the next question is when it will catch up with Windows XP. Because, unbelievable as it may seem, Windows XP still has a massive 55% of the desktop OS market. That is more than Windows 7 and Vista combined.
To figure out when Windows 7 will overtake XP, we have made a prediction based on the average market share changes over the past six months. It will give us an idea of what will happen if things continue at their current pace.
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Vikas Gupta
February 24th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Great info! I submitted it to Digg. You have a great blog as I have previously mentioned as well.
Ads Mitchell
February 25th, 2010 at 1:43 am
Excellent Find! Thanks for this..Keep up your good work guys and gals!
Didier DURAND
February 25th, 2010 at 6:01 am
isn’t there a mistake in number of daily words on Blogger: 270’000 seem very little!
didieri
Pingdom
February 25th, 2010 at 7:13 am
@Didier: You’re right. It’s supposed to be words per MINUTE. We’ll fix that. Thanks for spotting it. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html
Kurt
February 25th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Nice bit of link bait. Well done.
Shawn Yuan
February 25th, 2010 at 10:30 am
I love this. I love the research efforts dedicated to this visual snapshot.
Adam P
February 25th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Great infographic. I think one major milestone was left off the timeline. That is the launch of AdWords in May of 2002. If AdSense is on there so should AdWords. That product was and is the cornerstone of their revenue.
Pingdom
February 25th, 2010 at 11:45 am
@Adam P: Good point.
libragirl
February 25th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Umm…the author only forgot their most important (revenue generating) product: AdWords. Why no love for the ads product????
Florian Huber
February 25th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Nice grafic. Good research! Thanks.
Denis
February 25th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
One trillion pages indexed in summer’08 is incorrect. The correct is “one trillion URLs known”.
WerewolfCustoms
February 26th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Well, just wanted to say, that, I own the #1000 Re-Tweet
P.S.
Love the info-graphics. Amazing, how fast Google took over the Internet world. That reminds me:
If you can’t beat them – join them!
Parent Madness
February 26th, 2010 at 10:08 am
A few other big Google products that you didn’t mention: Google Maps (acquired product in 2004) and Google News, which is having a huge effect on the revenue of local newspapers.
Dj Tukancheez
February 26th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
First of all,
thanks for the research data, really amazing!
Secondly,
I am pretty amazed how Google dominate the internet… ufff,..just huge change since the beginning.
Mark Alan Effinger
February 26th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Incredibly elegant visualization. Dave Gray from Xplane would love this. Probably have some nice comments to add to it as well.
You’ve prompted me to create a similar infographic for ThoughtRod – one on innovation and company/product lifecycles.
Thanks again for the killer info.
Best,
ME
toonuts
February 26th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Thanks, please Microsoft Grafic? (xbox, msn, windows, …)
Brian Clifton
February 26th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
BTW, 20% time for employees is for engineers only (about half the company.
Brian
Xoogler (ex-Googler)
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February 27th, 2010 at 7:06 am
One trillion pages indexed in summer’08 is incorrect. The correct is “one trillion URLs known”.
Chris Meller
February 27th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
I would love a high-quality poster-size version to have printed, it’d go great on my wall at work!
Shevonne
February 27th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
All I can say is wow! You can tell the all the work you put into the infographic. Nice work!
Sebastian Schneider
February 28th, 2010 at 5:45 am
Very good job! Nice visualisation of the values.
Thanks
Sebastian
Bor
March 1st, 2010 at 7:54 am
If I remember correctly you missed one fictional language: pirate
Jan Triplett
March 1st, 2010 at 9:13 am
Remarkable piece of research – and a bit scary. Thanks for taking the time to assemble this.
Nyackgirl
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Love it, what program(s) did you use to create the charts and assemble the infographic?
Nitpick
March 4th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
“It’s grown hand in hand with the internet…”
It *has* grown hand in hand with the internet…
jp ranschaert
March 5th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Impressive infographic indeed, it illustrates literally how huge search is in real terms and in marketing terms. This has inspired me to blog about this on my livertising blog at http://www.livertising.net/blog . Thanks for the impulse.
Michael
March 5th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Google’s stock was IPO priced at $85 but unless you were connected or a Google employee your price was $113 on opening day.
Dennis
March 5th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
There’s a mistake in the number of gourmet restaurants. There are about 15 in Mountain View, CA, but there are restaurants in every office all over the world as well.
Cris DeRaud
March 7th, 2010 at 9:02 am
The accomplishments achieved by Google are simply mind-boggling.
This chart helps to put it into perspective but it is still hard to envision numbers this big.
Jeff H.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Unless I’m overlooking a decimal, the profit and revenue figures in this are wrong by an order of magnitude.
Google’s revenue and profit is in the billions, not trillions.
http://gigaom.com/2009/03/30/googles-market-cap-now-bigger-than-ges/
Pingdom
March 9th, 2010 at 6:00 am
@Jeff H. Where are you seeing trillions? It’s billions in this doc, so I guess you are indeed overlooking a decimal?
Jeff
April 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
great number on blogger,,, wowwww
Robin @ Pay as you go broadband
April 26th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Those figures are truly astonishing – and a great graphic representation of some big numbers.. done so much better with charts so you can see growth.
Even when Google went through its initial IPO I thought the shares were a tad on the pricey side. Now with hindsight I now figure that I lost the opportunity to turn every $1000 of shares into $6000 – shame for me but great for anyone with shares.
I’m not complaining though – I get to use some great Google tools (especially Gmail, Docs and Apps) for productivity, web analytics and search engine marketing trends. They do “give out” some pretty cool stuff… in return for your privacy & adwords bucks.
Mark Alan Effinger
June 21st, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Incredibly eye-opening folks. Well done (as always).
I’m curious: What do you folks use to assemble these infographics? They’re gorgeous and effective (a tough challenge with even much less complex data).
I’d love to see a real-time mashup that guesstimates these datapoints as they move. Talk about mind-bending info. Thanks again for the peek inside the Googleplex
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July 7th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Love it, what program(s) did you use to create the charts and assemble the infographic?
Antoony
July 20th, 2010 at 5:39 am
Honestly, this is the first time I know the facts about google in the form of numbers like this article.
As I guessed before this that the majority of Google revenue is derived from advertising. But, up to 97%? Wow … Because the income from advertising field reach 97%, this means that google must think of diversification of income from another field. Because if their competitors can take google’s market share on advertising field then google could be collapse.
john
August 16th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I must agree these are some quite amazing figures and also the graphs are an excellent view for us to put things in perpestive as to the scale of the company as a whole..
But i know that youtube is now owned by google…..
But are you aware that youtube as a SEARCH ENGINE is getting
wheeeeeeeyyy more searches than google ???
i was a bit shocked to hear this but it is TRUE