15 Google Statistics and Facts for 2026

Google’s parent company Alphabet passed $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time in 2025, according to CEO Sundar Pichai, and Google still handles 89.94% of the world’s searches (StatCounter, September 2026). Google’s products also dominate the browser and phone markets: Chrome has 66.36% of worldwide browser share and Android runs 69.17% of mobile devices.

The 15 Google statistics and facts below cover Alphabet’s finances, Google’s market share across search, browsers and mobile, its AI products such as Gemini and AI Mode, and a few other businesses. They come from Alphabet’s earnings remarks and StatCounter’s market data, with links in the Sources section. For search behavior and click data, see our separate Google search statistics.

Updated October 2026.

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1. Alphabet’s annual revenue exceeded $400 billion for the first time in 2025

In his Q4 2025 earnings remarks (February 4, 2026), Sundar Pichai said Alphabet’s annual revenues exceeded $400 billion for the first time. Most of that comes from Google advertising in Search and YouTube, with Google Cloud and subscriptions as the fastest-growing parts of the business.

2. Alphabet’s revenue grew 24% year over year in Q2 2026

According to Pichai’s Q2 2026 earnings remarks (July 22, 2026), Alphabet revenue grew 24% year over year in the second quarter of 2026. Search and other revenue grew 17%, YouTube ads grew 13% and Google Cloud grew 82%.

3. Google Cloud revenue grew 82% in Q2 2026, with a $514 billion backlog

Google Cloud is now Alphabet’s fastest-growing division. In Q2 2026, Cloud revenue grew 82% year over year and its backlog of contracted future revenue reached $514 billion, up from $240 billion at the end of 2025, according to Alphabet’s earnings remarks. Backlog more than doubled in six months.

4. Google Cloud passed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in Q1 2026

Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings remarks (April 29, 2026) reported that Google Cloud revenue grew 63% and exceeded $20 billion in a single quarter for the first time. At the end of 2025, Cloud was on an annual run rate of more than $70 billion.

5. Google has 350 million paid subscriptions

In Q1 2026, Alphabet said the number of paid subscriptions across its consumer services had reached 350 million, up from more than 325 million at the end of 2025. Subscriptions include Google One storage and AI plans, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music.

6. YouTube’s annual revenue surpassed $60 billion in 2025

Alphabet said in February 2026 that YouTube’s annual revenues surpassed $60 billion across ads and subscriptions. See our YouTube statistics for audience and creator numbers.

Google market share statistics

7. Google has 89.94% of the worldwide search engine market

StatCounter Global Stats shows Google with 89.94% of worldwide search engine market share in September 2026, far ahead of Bing (5.29%). On mobile, Google’s share is 95.68%. For click-through and AI Overview data, see our Google search statistics.

8. Chrome has 66.36% of the worldwide browser market

According to StatCounter’s browser data for September 2026, Google Chrome holds 66.36% of worldwide browser market share across all devices, ahead of Apple’s Safari (18.27%), Microsoft Edge (6.04%), Firefox (2.8%) and Samsung Internet (2.31%).

9. Android runs 69.17% of the world’s mobile devices

StatCounter’s mobile operating system data for September 2026 shows Google’s Android with 69.17% of worldwide mobile OS market share, compared with 30.81% for Apple’s iOS. Together the two platforms account for virtually all smartphones in use.

Google AI statistics

10. The Gemini app has 950 million monthly active users

Alphabet’s Q2 2026 earnings remarks report 950 million monthly active users for the Gemini app, with daily active users tripling over the past year. That is up from 750 million monthly users at the end of 2025 and 450 million in mid-2025.

Source: Alphabet quarterly earnings remarks.

11. Google’s AI Mode in Search has more than 1 billion monthly active users

According to the Q2 2026 remarks, AI Mode, the conversational search experience Google launched in 2025, has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users. A year earlier, Google reported more than 100 million monthly active users of AI Mode in the US and India.

12. AI Overviews reach more than 2 billion monthly users

Google reported in its Q2 2025 earnings remarks that AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries at the top of search results, had over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries and territories and 40 languages.

13. Google’s model APIs process about 22 billion tokens per minute

In Q2 2026, Google said its model APIs were processing approximately 22 billion tokens per minute, up from 16 billion a quarter earlier, and that more than 9 million developers build with its models each month. Tokens are the units of text that AI models read and write.

Other Google facts and figures

14. More than 10 million YouTube channels publish Shorts every day

Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings remarks report that over 10 million channels now publish YouTube Shorts each day, and that US viewers watch over 200 million hours of YouTube content daily on living-room TVs.

15. Alphabet’s drone company Wing has completed more than 1 million home deliveries

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery business, has completed more than 1 million home deliveries, according to the Q2 2026 earnings remarks. Wing operates alongside Alphabet’s other bets, including the self-driving car company Waymo.

Google fun facts

A few facts from Google’s own history page that people often ask about:

• The Google story began at Stanford University in 1995, when Larry Page met Sergey Brin.
• The search engine was first called BackRub, because it ranked pages by the links pointing to them.
• The name Google is a play on “googol”, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
• Google’s first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, rented from Susan Wojcicki, who later ran YouTube.
• Google Inc. was officially born in August 1998, after an investment from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.

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How we compiled these statistics

Financial and product figures come from Sundar Pichai’s published earnings-call remarks for Q2 2025 through Q2 2026, and market-share data comes from StatCounter Global Stats (September 2026). We removed older figures such as daily search counts, which Google no longer publishes. All data is as of October 2026; Alphabet’s Q3 2026 results are due at the end of October.

FAQs

Sources

1. Google: Q2 2026 earnings call remarks from Sundar Pichai (July 22, 2026)
2. Google: Q1 2026 earnings call remarks from Sundar Pichai (April 29, 2026)
3. Google: Q4 2025 earnings call remarks from Sundar Pichai (February 4, 2026)
4. Google: Q2 2025 earnings call remarks from Sundar Pichai (July 23, 2025)
5. StatCounter Global Stats: Search Engine Market Share Worldwide
6. StatCounter Global Stats: Browser Market Share Worldwide
7. StatCounter Global Stats: Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide
8. Google: Our story