Let's face it, every year is basically a pretty good year for Google.

Sure, G+ might not quite be taking the world by fire, but pipping Apple to become the World's Most Valuable Brand probably makes up for it.

With that in mind, here's the latest look into the gargantuan world of Google.

Searching questions

Every month Google processes over 100 billion search queries every month, or 3.3 billion every day.  

However only 50 per cent of these searches are secure.

Selfies

It's estimated that over half (56 per cent) of Google users regularly search their own name.

Redaction

Every week Google receives 5000 reconsideration requests, while over a typical month Google is requested to remove 21 million URLs from search results.

Market leader

Google not only accounts for 67 per cent of the US search market, it also owns a range of properties including Gmail, YouTube, Google Ads and Google Maps. 

Each of the properties alone would be a multi-million dollar company, and have their own amazing stats.

For example, last month viewers watched 6 billion hours of YouTube videos, while Google Maps has so far tracked over 1 billion kilometres. 

Google's next big money earner is set to be Google Glass, however at last count 72 per cent of US internet users won't use glass – citing privacy concerns.

Dollar bill

Google is currently valued at US$159 billion, and in 2012 the company spent US$9.8 billion on Research and Design.

On the other end of the scale, the average Google intern earns just shy of US$6000 per month. They do get free bikes though.

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