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Google’s increased market share in October 08 – 71.7%

ramolimendos — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:39:17 +0000

Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise.

At the same time, Yahoo’s share slipped to 17.7 percent, from 18.1 percent a month earlier and 21.7 percent a year ago. Microsoft’s share rose slightly in October to 5.4 percent from 5.36 percent in September, but the down from 7.4 percent in October of last year. Internet searches at Ask.com fell to 3.5 percent from 3.6 percent a month ago, and from 4.8 percent last year.

Hitwise bases its data on a sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users over four week rolling periods. The Microsoft figures include Live.com and MSN Search but does not include Club.Live.com.

The remaining 43 search engines Hitwise tracks accounted for 1.6 percent of U.S. searches in October.

Source: Macworld

Scour – A new Search Engine

ramolimendos — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:28:59 +0000

Scour is a new search engine that combines the results of the most famous search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo. You can also rate the results as you do in Pandora. By this, Scour is getting better!

Happy Birthday Google!

ramolimendos — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:10:15 +0000

10 years Google! It was 7th of September 1998 (Sunday) when Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the google.com! From then until now, nobody was expecting that Google would be one of the most expensive brand name in the world and that there would be 65 millions searches per hour!

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New York Times compared Google and Microsoft:

Google?s age: 10
Microsoft?s age: 33

Google?s revenue in the last 4 quarters: $19.6 billion
Microsoft?s revenue in the last 4 quarters: $60.4 billion

Microsoft?s revenue at age 10: $140 million
($279 million in today?s dollars)

Google?s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $2.2 million
Microsoft?s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $6.9 million

Google net income in the last 4 quarters: $4.85 billion
Microsoft?s net income in the last 4 quarters: $17.6 billion

Google employees, as of June 30th: 19,604
Microsoft employees, as of May 31st: 89,809

Google?s revenue per employee: $1 million
Microsoft revenue per employee: $672,000

Market value of Google: $142 billion
Market value of Microsoft: $241 billion

Number of tech companies with a market value larger than Google?s: 3 (Microsoft, I.B.M. and Apple, in that order)

Worldwide searches on Google in July: 48.7 billion
Worldwide searches on Microsoft in July: 2.3 billion

Worldwide searches per hour on Google in July: 65 million
Worldwide searches per hour on Microsoft in July: 3.1 million

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