Google is a popular internet search engine. It scans the Web to find Web pages that are relevant to the words you have typed in the search box. Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It is the top search engine in the world, a position that has generated criticism and concern about the power it has to influence the flow of online information. 

Google processes over 8.5 billion searches per day. 

 The figure for global users is 2.65 billion, and has been following an increasing trend for years.