![The Big Bang of the Web [Infographic]](https://techplugged.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Explosion-if-Mobile-Devices-and-Net-Use.jpg "The Big Bang of the Web [Infographic]")
These websites are all hosted on web servers, of course. While Apache is used by the vast majority of websites at 62.8%, Nginx and Microsoft IIS hold respectable minorities of hosting at 18.2% and 14.4% of the websites on the World Wide Web, respectively.
The Explosion of Search
Along with the growth in the number of websites has come a tremendous growth in the number of web searches. Google saw only 9,800 queries per day in 1998, for 3.6 million searches annually. By 2012, though, the search engine was averaging 3 billion search queries daily, with 1.2 trillion searches conducted in 2012.
