Our friends at PearlPR just sent us this info on Worldwide Search Statistics for August 2007

Some interesting results

• 61 billion internet searches carried out around the world in August
• Google managed 37 billion internet searches were made with Google during the month, accounting for 60% of the total,
• 750 million people aged 15 or over, or 95% of the world’s internet audience made searches in August, averaging out at 80 searches per user.
• The Asia-Pacific region made the most searches at 20.3 billion
• Europe made 18 billion searches
• North America made 16 billion searches
• Latin America made 4.7 billion searches
• Out of Google’s 31 billion searches, five billion occurred through Google-owned YouTube.com
• Chinese language search site Baidu.com was the third most popular search engine with 3.2 billion searches or 5.3% of the worldwide total.
• Microsoft sites accounted for 3.5% of worldwide searches at 2.1 billion.

Thanks Hollie for the Info