Nigeria has made a crucial mark in Google ranking in what the Internet giant sees could prove critical to its future business.
TheNewsGuru reports the Internet search giant announced at its Google For Nigeria 2018 event that Nigeria has become the number one country with mobile search query in the world.
This translate to mean that Google now gets more mobile search queries from Nigerians using mobile devices such as smartphones than it does from other countries worldwide.
The shift in mobile searches marks an important milestone for Google that could prove critical to the Internet giant’s future business.
TheNewsGuru reports 58% of Google’s total search queries come from mobile devices and 20% of mobile search queries are voice queries.
This is even as Google handles 63% of all desktop search queries, and over 94% of mobile search on the Internet.
The tech giant says its voice recognition technology is getting better and better, and that the technology is now 95% accurate.
While, however, Google did not explicitly identify other countries in the mobile search query ranking, Ken Tokusei, PM Director International Search at Google, revealed a new search trend pattern that showed the top Internet search criteria of Nigerians using Google search.
He revealed that World Cup fixtures, Wizkid soco, Npower, Prepare banga soup, Who is the richest musician in Nigeria, How to dance shaku shaku, Black panther, Bbnaija and How to tie gele, are so far, topping search trend on Google in 2018.
“Our new search experience makes it easier for you to search your favourite recipes right within Google search.
“Health queries are common on the web, so we are making it easier with a new search experience that allows you to explore health conditions related to symptoms,” Ken said.
In the past four years or so, analysing lists based on search terms that had a high spike in traffic, the trend has followed a similar pattern.
Source: thenewsguru.com
