Google processes over 5 trillion searches annually, which equates to more than 13.7 billion searches per day. Some third-party estimates for 2025 put the daily figure higher, at around 16.4 billion.

Google AI is the overarching brand for Google's artificial intelligence initiatives, encompassing research, development, and consumer-facing products aimed at advancing AI technology. Its mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful by building AI that is helpful for everyone, focusing on areas like creativity, knowledge, productivity, and experimentation.

Gemini: Google's flagship AI model and app, with the latest version (Gemini 3) introduced in November 2025 as its most intelligent model yet, offering advanced reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and integration across Google services.

Veo: An AI video generation tool, recently updated to Veo 3.1 in October 2025 for enhanced storytelling, including photo-to-video transformations.

Nano Banana: A tool for image editing integrated into Google Search, launched in October 2025.

NotebookLM: An AI-powered note-taking and research assistant.

Google Lens: For visual search and real-time interactions via voice and camera, expanded in September 2025.

Experimental projects: Such as GenTabs (AI for tab management), Mixboard (music creation), Lyria (music generation), Project Mariner (agentic AI for tasks), and Project Astra (multimodal AI assistants).

The branding emphasizes innovation and accessibility, with features like visually immersive responses, AI modes for enhanced interactions, and tools that blend generative AI with practical applications across Google's ecosystem.

Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT are two leading AI chatbots and models, both leveraging large language models (LLMs) for tasks like text generation, reasoning, multimodal processing (text, images, audio, video), coding, and research. 

As of December 2025, Gemini's latest flagship is Gemini 3 (released late 2025), building on the 2.5 series, while ChatGPT is powered by the GPT-5.2 series (launched December 11, 2025), alongside models like GPT-5, GPT-4o, and o-series variants. Both emphasize advanced reasoning, real-time web access, and integrations, but Gemini is multimodal-native with deep Google ecosystem ties, whereas ChatGPT focuses on conversational fluency, customizability, and broader third-party support.

Try to think back to the first time you used Google. When did 'Google' become a verb for you? When did you first tell someone to 'Google it' and get back to you? It was not last month or last year. It was YEARS ago. When did you first get a Gmail account? For me personally I had a working Gmail since April 1, 2004, when it was initially launched as an invite-only beta version with innovative features like 1 GB of storage. It came out of beta and became publicly available in 2009.

Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. 9,962 days ago. I Googled it.

Actually, I just asked out loud "OK, Google, how many days ago was 9/4/1998? The male voice told me: 9,962 days.

March 23, 2053 will be 9,962 days from today. I asked Grok, and he gave me that answer. And I'm not even thinking about checking his work. Ah, but would Google give me the same answer? Will any 'AI' be smarter, faster, better than the rest? I think the AI Wars began long, long ago. 

I just had a image of 'all the AI' bots in a room together, all playing cards... they are all in cahoots.

Ah, did you just Google cahoots? 

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