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Google now sees more than 5 trillion searches per year
We still don’t know exactly how many more than 5 trillion queries Google processes annually. Google last claimed at least 2 trillion in 2016.
Google processes more than 5 trillion searches per year. This is the first time Google has publicly shared such a figure since 2016, when the company confirmed it was handling “more than 2 trillion” queries annually.
By the numbers. Google revealed the new figure in a blog post today, saying it is based on internal Google data:
- “We already see more than 5 trillion searches on Google annually.”
Google added another tidbit in the same blog post: that “the volume of commercial queries has increased” since the launch of AI Overviews. However, Google didn’t share any data or a percentage to explain how much commercial queries have increased.
Searches per second, minute, day and month. Now that we have an updated figure, we can also estimate how many Google searches there are pretty much down to the second. Here’s a breakdown based on this new Google data point:
- Searches per second: 158,548
- Searches per minute: 9.5 million.
- Searches per hour: 571 million.
- Searches per day: 14 billion.
- Searches per month: 417 billion.
- Searches per year: More than 5 trillion.
Google searches per year, over time. Curious about how the number of Google search queries has grown over time, at least based on what Google self-reported? Here’s a brief recap:
- 1999: 1 billion. This figure was based on 3 million searches per day, reported in August 1999 by John Battelle in his book, “The Search.”
- 2000: 14 billion. This figure was based on 18 million searches per day for the first half of 2000 and 60 million for the second half, as reported by Battelle.
- 2001–2003: 55 billion+. This figure was based on reports by Google for its Zeitgeist in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
- 2004–2008: 73 billion. This figure was based on Google saying it was doing 200 million searches per day in 2004. After that, it said only “billions” in Google Zeitgeist for 2005 and 2007. No updates were shared in 2006 or 2008.
- 2009: 365 billion+. A Google blog post, Google Instant, behind the scenes, said Google was doing more than 1 billion searches per day. No updates for 2010 or 2011)
- 2012–2015: 1.2 trillion. This figure is based on a 100-billion-per-month figure Google released during a special press briefing on search in 2012. Google repeated this figure in 2015, when expressing it as 3 billion searches per day.
- 2016-2024: 2 trillion+. Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that because it said it handles “trillions” of searches per year worldwide, the figure could be safely assumed to be 2 trillion or above.
- 2025: 5 trillion+. This figure is based on internal Google data and was reported in Google’s blog post, AI, personalization and the future of shopping.
Why we care. Since 2016, we’ve known that Google processes “at least 2 trillion” searches per year. Now, nearly nine years later, we have a new official figure from Google for how many searches are conducted on Google annually: 5 trillion.
5.9 trillion? Hours after we published our story, Rand Fishkin published new research that estimated the number of Google searches per year to be 5.9 trillion. From the study:
- “Our math above puts the number at 5.9 Trillion, a little high, likely because Datos’ panel focuses on wealthier countries where more search activity per person is to be expected. Still incredible that they’d come out with numbers the day we publish that help back up the veracity of these results, and the quality of Datos’ panel.”
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Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) Processors With vPro for Commercial PCs Launched at MWC 2025
Intel unveiled its latest additions to the Core Ultra (Series 2) processor lineup at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress (MWC 2025). The chipmaker’s newest chips will power business computers, including laptops, desktops, and workstations. The new Core Ultra (Series 2) chips have Intel’s vPro branding, and the company says the Core Ultra 200V series chips can deliver up to 20 hours of battery life. The Intel Core Ultra 200V processors are also Copilot+ certified, which means that they support Microsoft’s AI features available on Windows 11.
Intel’s New vPro CPUs to Power Commercial PCs from Over 10 OEMs
At MWC 2025, Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S series processors, as well as the new Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors. The chipmaker has touted the performance gains offered by these chips — for example, the Core Ultra 7 265H chip is claimed to deliver a 2.84x jump in multi-core performance (Cinebench 2024) compared with Intel’s older Core i7-1185G7 CPU that was launched in 2020.
Intel’s latest Core Ultra processor lineup
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Similarly, the Core Ultra 7 265H processor delivers up to 1.42 times and 2.42 times better performance on the single-core and multi-core tests on Geekbench 6.3, respectively. Intel’s charts also show that the Core Ultra 7 265H delivers up to 15 percent better performance than the AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360.
All the new chips from Intel are equipped with support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 (with Bluetooth LE Audio) connectivity and Thunderbolt 4 and Thunderbolt 5 ports. The company said it will launch the Intel Assured Supply Chain programme later this year with specific OEMs (including HP and Lenovo) that offer digital supply chain verification for individual chips.
The new Core Ultra 200V series CPUs from Intel are claimed to offer over 20 hours of battery life on supported systems. These Lunar Lake processors will power thin and light commercial laptops, as will the new Intel Core Ultra 200U (Arrow Lake) CPUs.
Intel’s new processors will be available from over 10 OEMs
Photo Credit: Intel
More powerful commercial notebooks will be powered by Intel Core Ultra 200H and Core Ultra 200HX processors, according to Intel. Meanwhile, desktop and workstation computers will be equipped with Intel Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake) processors.
Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) CPUs With vPro Availability
Intel states that commercial PCs equipped with the new Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S series processors will be launched by the end of March. New PCs running on Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors are available. Businesses can expect PCs from over 10 OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Microsoft’s Surface division, and Lenovo.
New commercial PCs with Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) processors featuring Intel’s Assured Supply Chain programme (with a chain of custody for each chip that can be digitally attested) are scheduled to arrive in H2 2025, according to the company.
Mistral introduced the Mistral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is capable of analysing and processing PDF documents and converting it into an AI-ready text format such as Markdown or raw text file. The tool is capable of extracting data from PDFs to make them digestible for AI models. The Paris-based AI firm claimed that the Mistral OCR API will allow developers to build AI applications for PDF files as well as allow them to create datasets to train new AI models.
Mistral OCR API Introduced
PDF documents pose a unique challenge for AI models. The content in this file format cannot be accessed by large language models (LLMs) using traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques as the data cannot be processed by them. For example, if you ask an AI application to scan through PDF documents in your laptop to find a piece of information, it might struggle to do so.
This means that developers building AI applications will be limited in offering PDF-analysis capability. While Google’s NotebookLM, Adobe’s AI assistant, and several other tools use specialised OCR tools to overcome this challenge, developers in the open-source community do not have access to a high-efficiency tool.
Mistral OCR API solves this challenge by allowing developers to extract PDF data into an AI-ready format. The company claims in a newsroom post that the tool can understand separate elements in documents, including media, text, tables, and equations with high accuracy. Once analysed, it can extract and present the information in the Markdown or a raw text file format.
AI models can then use this extracted text as input and RAG systems can easily access them and answer queries about them. “Mistral OCR excels in understanding complex document elements, including interleaved imagery, mathematical expressions, tables, and advanced layouts such as LaTeX formatting. The model enables deeper understanding of rich documents such as scientific papers with charts, graphs, equations and figures,” the post stated.
The company claimed that the Mistral OCR can process up to 2,000 pages per minute on a single node. The API also lets developers use the document as a prompt, and chain outputs to build function calling tools and AI agents.
Based on internal testing, the Mistral OCR outperformed models such as Google Document AI, Azure OCR, and GPT-4o version 2024-11-20 for “text-only” documents. It also outperformed Google and Azure in multilingual capabilities.
Those interested in trying out the capability of the model can go to Mistral’s Le Chat platform. The API can be accessed from la Plateforme.
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SEO won’t deliver results if your foundation isn’t ready. Learn what to fix first to turn traffic into real business growth.
Jeff Collins on March 5, 2025 at 11:00 am | Reading time: 6 minutes
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Opinion
When a business hires an SEO service, they expect immediate action – site tweaks, content strategies, and keyword targeting – rolled out fast.
So when my recent client demanded these deliverables ASAP, my response caught them off guard:
“You don’t need it.”
It wasn’t what they wanted to hear. But it was exactly what they needed to understand.
The problem: No one was converting
The client was frustrated. Their website wasn’t converting, and they assumed the problem was a lack of SEO improvements.
More content, more keywords, more tactics, surely that would solve everything, right?
Not exactly.
Here’s what I found after a quick audit:
- The website was too product-focused: It was all about features instead of the benefits that mattered to its target audience.
- The calls to action (CTAs) were nondescriptive: They lacked direction and urgency.
- There was no social proof: No reviews, no testimonials, and nothing to build trust or validate the product’s value.
SEO wasn’t the solution here.
The real issue was that the website wasn’t designed to convert traffic. It lacked a strong foundation to build on.
Dig deeper: Top 10 SEO benefits of building a brand that people trust
Throwing SEO out the window
Instead of diving into SEO tactics, we pressed pause. We needed to fix the foundation first.
Here’s what we did instead:
- Compiled internal data from studies, surveys, customer service, sales, and product teams.
- Built a trust section on the homepage, highlighting key testimonials, trust headers, and case studies to establish credibility.
- Added reviews and social proof, incorporating testimonials, ratings, and real customer experiences throughout the site to validate the product’s value.
- Replaced “features” messaging with benefits, focusing on how the product solves customer pain points and delivers real value.
- Revamped the CTAs, creating clear, benefit-driven calls to action that made it obvious what users could expect when clicking.
Dig deeper: SEO and website design: How to build search engine-friendly sites
The results: More sales without more traffic
We didn’t increase the site’s traffic, but that didn’t matter. By making those updates, we drove immediate results:
- More time spent on site
- Higher conversion rates
- Increased sales
And we did it without touching any traditional SEO deliverables.
The lesson: Focus on what moves the needle
This experience was a powerful reminder that sticking rigidly to standard deliverables can hurt growth.
Many consultants and agencies focus on checking off tasks – writing blog posts, optimizing for keywords, and building backlinks – without addressing the real issues blocking business growth.
But SEO isn’t about following a fixed playbook.
It’s about diagnosing roadblocks and opportunities to grow – then finding the right solution, even if that means abandoning the “usual” tactics.
Dig deeper: How SEO grows brands: The science behind the service
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More things to keep in mind before executing your SEO
Before diving headfirst into an SEO campaign, take a step back.
Too many people rush in, thinking keywords and backlinks are the magic fix.
But without a strong foundation, it’s like building a house on quicksand.
Here’s how to set yourself up for success.
1. Get clear on your goals and audience
Why are you doing this in the first place?
If you don’t know the answer, stop right there.
Whether you’re aiming to boost product sales, generate leads, or increase brand awareness, your goal will shape your entire SEO strategy.
And don’t forget about your audience.
What do they care about? What keeps them up at night?
The more you know, the better you can meet them where they are.
One of the most effective SEO strategies is to focus on your customers first.
The better you understand and serve their needs, the more your content will naturally align with what they’re searching for.
2. Give your website a reality check
Your website might look great, but is it working as hard as it cou
Before diving headfirst into an SEO campaign, take a step back.
Too many people rush in, thinking keywords and backlinks are the magic fix.
But without a strong foundation, it’s like building a house on quicksand.
Here’s how to set yourself up for success.
1. Get clear on your goals and audience
Why are you doing this in the first place?
If you don’t know the answer, stop right there.
Whether you’re aiming to boost product sales, generate leads, or increase brand awareness, your goal will shape your entire SEO strategy.
And don’t forget about your audience.
What do they care about? What keeps them up at night?
The more you know, the better you can meet them where they are.
One of the most effective SEO strategies is to focus on your customers first.
The better you understand and serve their needs, the more your content will naturally align with what they’re searching for.
2. Give your website a reality check
Your website might look great, but is it working as hard as it could be?
Before looking at traffic, do a deep dive.
Check for trust factors, broken links, slow page speeds, indexing issues, and outdated content.
Think of this like tuning up a car before a road trip. Don’t hit the gas until you’re sure everything is running smoothly.
3. Spy on your competitors (in a good way)
This experience was a powerful reminder that sticking rigidly to standard deliverables can hurt growth.
Many consultants and agencies focus on checking off tasks – writing blog posts, optimizing for keywords, and building backlinks – without addressing the real issues blocking business growth.
But SEO isn’t about following a fixed playbook.
It’s about diagnosing roadblocks and opportunities to grow – then finding the right solution, even if that means abandoning the “usual” tactics.
Dig deeper: How SEO grows brands: The science behind the service
SEO won’t deliver results if your foundation isn’t ready. Learn what to fix first to turn traffic into real business growth.
Jeff Collins on March 5, 2025 at 11:00 am | Reading time: 6 minutes
Chat with SearchBot
Opinion
When a business hires an SEO service, they expect immediate action – site tweaks, content strategies, and keyword targeting – rolled out fast.
So when my recent client demanded these deliverables ASAP, my response caught them off guard:
“You don’t need it.”
It wasn’t what they wanted to hear. But it was exactly what they needed to understand.
The problem: No one was converting
The client was frustrated. Their website wasn’t converting, and they assumed the problem was a lack of SEO improvements.
More content, more keywords, more tactics, surely that would solve everything, right?
Not exactly.
Here’s what I found after a quick audit:
- The website was too product-focused: It was all about features instead of the benefits that mattered to its target audience.
- The calls to action (CTAs) were nondescriptive: They lacked direction and urgency.
- There was no social proof: No reviews, no testimonials, and nothing to build trust or validate the product’s value.
SEO wasn’t the solution here.
The real issue was that the website wasn’t designed to convert traffic. It lacked a strong foundation to build on.
Dig deeper: Top 10 SEO benefits of building a brand that people trust
Throwing SEO out the window
Instead of diving into SEO tactics, we pressed pause. We needed to fix the foundation first.
Here’s what we did instead:
- Compiled internal data from studies, surveys, customer service, sales, and product teams.
- Built a trust section on the homepage, highlighting key testimonials, trust headers, and case studies to establish credibility.
- Added reviews and social proof, incorporating testimonials, ratings, and real customer experiences throughout the site to validate the product’s value.
- Replaced “features” messaging with benefits, focusing on how the product solves customer pain points and delivers real value.
- Revamped the CTAs, creating clear, benefit-driven calls to action that made it obvious what users could expect when clicking.
Dig deeper: SEO and website design: How to build search engine-friendly sites
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