emoticon statistics update

This reports on an emoticon statistics update which highlights the continued amazing growth in the use of emoticons. I have reported previously about the amazing emoticon statistics. What this report shows is the continuing stellar growth of this phenomenon.

It is only 43 days ago that I reported the number of searches for each of the following search terms. Today I have added the current vales for comparison together with the growth rates for each of the keywords.

What a difference 43 days makes! Every statistic is up by at least 49%. that’s 50% growth in 43 days. Wow!

What are you guys out there doing with the smileys? This is a meteoric rise in their use. I knew they were popular but this is going crazy!

This means that there are at around 938 thousand searches every day. By the time you add in all the other similar searches there is almost certainly over 1 million searches every day for smileys and emoticons! Every single day! thats around 365 million searches every year. Just for those lovable little characters. that’s a lot of searches.

Before you question these statistics, I must say that they are by their nature approximate. But what is interesting is the growth rate. My figures are very much on a like for like basis and therefore while the absolute numbers might be approximate, the growth figures should be less so, because I have used the same basic source for the figures.

The figures for the number of pages that Google has identified as satisfying the search for each of the keywords is shown in the table below.

Interestingly three of the four keywords is showing an increase in the number of pages on the internet. I cannot answer why one page statistics have gone down, but all the others are up between 12 and 17 percent. this is phenomenal growth in just 43 days!

I would caution on the absolute numbers for these statistics. Many pages will be counted more than once in the above table, but nonetheless significant underlying growth in double digits over 43 days is quite remarkable.

In summary, the smiley or emoticon phenomenon is still growing at amazing rates as this emoticon statistics update clearly shows. The smiley industry is getting bigger all the time. It must be one of the biggest growth industries throughout the world.