What Are You Up Against With SEOnly?

Google search stats:

  • 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source)

  • 2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily (source)

  • $110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button (source)

  • 24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)

  • 68,000,000 – the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source:  keyword tool)

  • $39.96 - the average cost per click for the phrase “consolidation of school loans” in AdWords (source:  keyword tool)

  • 1,430,000 - the number of Google results for “Robert Scoble”

  • 136,000 - the number of Google results for “Admiral Ackbar”

Wikipedia stats

  • 2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia

  • 684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year

  • 75,000 - the number of active contributors to Wikipedia

  • 10,000,000 – the number of total articles in Wikipedia in all languages

  • 260 – the number of languages articles have been written in on Wikipedia (source)

YouTube stats

  • 70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube  (March 2008) (currently believed to be over 500 million)

  • 200,000 – number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)  (currently believed to be over 2 million)

  • 100,000,000 – number of YouTube videos viewed per day (this stat from 2006 is the most recent published)

  • 112,486,327 – number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009)

  • 2 minutes 46.17 seconds – average length of video

  • 412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)

  • 26.57 - average age of uploader

  • 13 hours – amount of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute (2008 stat)

  • US $1.65 billion in Google stock – amount Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for in October 2006

  • $1,000,000 – YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day  (sources here, here and here)

Blogosphere stats

  • 133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002

  • 346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008) (probably triple now)

  • 900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period

  • 1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009)

  • 77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs

  • 55% – percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day (source)

  • 81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere

  • 59% – percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years  source

  • 63% - the percentage of blogs posting negative reviews or comments about businesses or individuals (source Google)
     

Twitter stats

  • 1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here)

  • 3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch)

  • 165,414 - number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) – but he’s not active

  • 86,078 – number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose)

  • 63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)

Facebook stats

  • 200,000,000 – number of active users

  • 100,000,000 - number of users who log on to Facebook at least once each day

  • 170 - number of countries/territories that use Facebook

  • 35 - number of different languages used on Facebook

  • 2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily

  • 100 – number of friends the average user has

  • 700,000,000 – number of photos added to Facebook monthly

  • 52,000 – number of applications currently available on Facebook

  • 140 - number of new applications added per day source

Digg stats

  • 236,000,000 – number of visitors attracted annually by 2008 (according to a Compete survey)

  • 56% - percentage of Digg’s frontpage content allegedly controlled by top 100 users

  • 124,340 - number of stories MrBabyMan, the number one user, has Dugg (see updated number here)

  • 612 - number of stories from Cracked.com that have made page 1 of Digg (see all 41 pages of them here)

  • 36,925 – number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365 days has received (see story here)

 

Source for the above: The Future Buzz  September 2010

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