Google still seems unstoppable
I noticed this article (seems like i’ve read the same thing at least 20 times) while reading through some financial news sites…
Google performed more than 4 billion searches in a single month for the first time. Its share of the market jumped by 1% over the prior month to 56.3%, increasing the number of searches it performed by 260 million.
Note above it says its market share increased by 1%, the number of searches performed increased by 6.5%, month over month!
Yahoo! performed 1.5 billion searches, for 21.5% of the market, vs. a 21.9% share in April. The number of searches it performed increased somewhat.
Microsoft, which recently announced it will buy online advertising business aQuantive to better compete against Google, saw its share of the search market drop to 8.4%, from 9% the prior month. The number of searches it performed, 605.4 million, increased slightly.
AOL lost 0.1 percentage points for a market share of 5.3%, performing 382 million searches.
Reading this article has only strengthened my resolve that one day (soon) google will virtually own the Internet, basically taking a monopoly over many businesses using Internet based business models. The only real threats to this outcome at the moment are the lack of market share in China and other rapidly emerging foreign markets, plus a few other robust best of breed Internet players like amazon for example. I don’t even think a merger between Yahoo and Microsoft would stop them.
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