There are approximately two billion Google searches every day (as of 2008). That's over 730 billion per year!

There are approximately 1 trillion unique URL's on the internet.

There are 1.73 billion internet users worldwide (as of 2009).

Canadians alone order over $12.8 billion online each year (2007).

81% of people using social websites have received product purchase advice from friends/followers through those sites (e.g. Facebook or Twitter).

90% of consumers trust recommendations from people they know, while over 70% also trust opinions posted online by people they don't know.

Facebook has over 500 million users, 50% of which log in every day.

Over $20 billion is spent on online marketing per year (2009).

70% of U.S. households use the internet when making local buying decisions.

95% of the search traffic not generated from brand names is driven by first page search results.

More than 700,000 local businesses have active pages on Facebook.