Did you know that eBay handles as many searches each month as Google does? It’s a strange world, isn’t it? I wonder how many of those searches are performed manually by humans. A much higher percentage at Google, I’d guess.
Related and also from John Battelle’s blog, are the following images.
I’ll never forget the first person who told me about Google. It was discussed as if it were some kind of underground secret. I still have someone ask me every once in awhile if I know about Google!