Already a staple in the daily routines of billions around the globe, the number of queries entered into online search engines continues to grow as we head into 2023.

Since you’re reading an SEM deep dive blog, we can safely assume that you’re more than familiar with the two most dominant search engines by volume; Microsoft‘s Bing and Alphabet‘s Google.

How many searches happen per day?

On an average day in 2022, Bing serves roughly 900 million search results to Google’s 8.5 billion. ^{1 | 2}

How many searches happen Per Second? Per year?

This pace equates to Google serving more than 100,000 searches per second, which will top 1.5 trillion searches in 2022 alone.

This does not even touch on the stats tallied by popular search engines like Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and Yandex. Even with smaller percentages of the market share, these search engine companies will add hundreds of billions of additional searches to the yearly total.