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Here in this post we will be talking about 2017 - The year gone.
The Tech gaint and the biggest search engine without any doubt is GOOGLE. How big is google search?
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Your wild guesses woudn't reach there.
Let me tell you how big it is .. SOME STATS:

Google processes over 40,000 search queries on an average. You can visualize it here.
Those numbers speak for themselves.

Google processes over 3.5 billion searches a day which translates to over 1.2 trillion searches per year.
The search graph is showing an exponential increase as can be seen below.

(Source)

According to a 2013 comScore public release, as of December 2012, Google enjoyed a 65.2% share of web search volume worldwide, with 114.7 billion searches that month.

Baidu has a 8.2% share (14.5 billion searches in December 2012).
Yahoo 4.9% (8.6 billions searches in December 2012).
Yandex 2.8% (4.8 billions searches December 2012).
Microsoft sites (mostly Bing) 2.5% (4.5 billions searches December 2012).

At the end of each year google releases top and trending in multiple categories. So let us take a look at what was trending in 2017 according to google.

Let us see what was trending in 2017 - Global

Searches	Pepole	Global News
1. Hurricane Irma	1. Matt Lauer	1. Hurricane Irma
2. iPhone 8	2. Meghan Markle	2. Bitcoin
3. iPhone X	3. Nadia Toffa	3. Las Vegas Shooting
4. Matt Lauer	4. Harvey Weinstein	4. North Korea
5. Meghan Markle	5. Kevin Spacey	5. Solar Eclipse
6. 13 Reasons Why	6. Gal Gadot	6. Hurricane Harvey
7. Tom Petty	7. Melania Trump	7. Manchester
8. Fidget Spinner	8. Floyd Mayweather	8. Hurricane Jose
9. Chester Bennington	9. Michael Flynn	9. Hurricane Maria
10. India National Cricket Team	10. Philippe Coutinho	10. April the Giraffe

Actors	Consumer Tech	Elections
1. Meghan Markle	1. iPhone 8	1. French election
2. Kevin Spacey	2. iPhone X	2. German federal election
3. Gal Gadot	3. Nintendo Switch	3. UK election
4. Louis C.K.	4. Samsung Galaxy S8	4. Uttar Pradesh election
5. Bill Skarsgård	5. Xbox One X	5. Georgia special election
6. Millie Bobby Brown	6. Nokia 3310	6. Montana special election
7. Tom Holland	7. Razer Phone	7. British Columbia election
8. Kaley Cuoco	8. Oppo F5	8. BMC election
9. Saoirse Ronan	9. OnePlus 5	9. Sicilian regional election
10. Jason Momoa	10. Nokia 6	10. Dutch election

Global Sporting Events	How To...	Losses
1. Wimbledon	1. How to make slime	1. Tom Petty
2. Super Bowl	2. How to make solar eclipse glasses	2. Chester Bennington
3. Mayweather vs McGregor Fight	3. How to buy Bitcoin	3. Chris Cornell
4. Tour de France	4. How to watch Mayweather vs McGregor	4. Bill Paxton
5. World Series	5. How to make a fidget spinner	5. Hugh Hefner
6. Australian Open	6. How to watch the solar eclipse	6. Aaron Hernandez
7. US Open	7. How to freeze your credit	7. Lil Peep
8. FIFA Confederations Cup	8. How to play Powerball	8. 小林 麻央
9. NBA Playoffs	9. How to screen record	9. Charlie Murphy
10. UEFA Champions League	10. How to lose belly fat fast	10. David Cassidy

Memes	Movies	Musicians and Bands
1. Cash Me Outside Meme	1. IT	1. Ariana Grande
2. United Airlines Meme	2. Wonder Woman	2. Linkin Park
3. Elf on the Shelf Meme	3. Beauty and the Beast	3. Lady Gaga
4. What in Tarnation Meme	4. Logan	4. Mariah Carey
5. Spongebob Mocking Meme	5. Justice League	5. Ed Sheeran
6. Romper Meme	6. The Fate of the Furious	6. Travis Scott
7. IT Meme	7. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	7. Kendrick Lamar
8. Joe Biden Meme	8. Dunkirk	8. Lil Pump
9. Game of Thrones Meme	9. La La Land	9. Katy Perry
10. Hot Dog Meme	10. Thor: Ragnarok	10. Cardi B

Recipe	Songs/Lyrics	TV Shows
1. Chicken breast recipe	1. Despacito	1. Stranger Things
2. Ground beef recipe	2. Shape of You	2. 13 Reasons Why
3. Poğaça tarifi (Turkish bread recipe)	3. Perfect	3. Big Brother Brasil
4. French toast recipe	4. Havana	4. Game of Thrones
5. Kek tarifi (cake recipe)	5. Look What You Made Me Do	5. Iron Fist
6. Pork chop recipe	6. HUMBLE.	6. Bigg Boss
7. Spaghetti squash recipe	7. Versace on the Floor	7. Riverdale
8. Coleslaw recipe	8. Closer	8. American Gods
9. Pesto recipe	9. Bad and Boujee	9. The Kapil Sharma Show
10. 餃子 レシピ (Dumpling recipe)	10. Rockstar	10. Mindhunter

I hope you like the post. If you do, please take a second to resteem it. Will see you in the next one. Peace!

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