Source for how many searches are done on Google per day?

[debi_zyx]

Hi, All!

The figure I've seen going around is 3 billion and is attributed to ComScore, but in the comScore press release that was linked to (actually the one from Rand's article - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012) all I could find was percentage of market share, but no total numbers of searches.

Anyone have a source on that?

Thanks,

Aviva

[josh-riley]

I just went to a luncheon 2 weeks ago that Catherine Roe (Head of Consumer Packaged Goods for Google) spoke at and she said that Google has 1 billion searches a day. This was based on internal data her team gave her (I don't know how recent, but I'd venture to guess she knows the right people to ask).

[debi_zyx]

Thanks Andrea.  A post from Search Engine Land (http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebook-vs-google-buzz-36709) from about 2 years ago also says that the only number Google will give is "more than 1 billion," but that is assumed in the article to be a minimum estimate.

So it could that Catherine Roe was reporting the only "official" stats Google has, but which may not reflect reality 100%.

Aviva

[josh-riley]

Google will never show its cards And I've never gotten really accurate data from ComScore, etc. so there's only so much you can uncover, eh?