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Google's US Search Market Dominance Hits All Time High
readwriteweb.com — Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today finding that Google's marketshare in US searches rose last month to an all time high of 67% of searches performed. Yahoo! Search (20%), MSN Search (5.25%) and Ask.com (4%) trail far behind.
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- marshallk, on 04/08/2008, -1/+4Post includes discussion of three ways Google's momentum could face challenges.
- DavidTTT, on 04/08/2008, -2/+19I hope Google goes easy on us when it takes over the world....we love you google ^^ *hides in fear*
- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -2/+1Sorry but Google has censored too much compared to Live Search and others:
Because they DID NOT oblige China and their censorship, Yahoo and Live search are being redirected to the Chinese search engine Baidu.
It's only Google that has seemed to complied with the Chinese government.
Scientology
In 2002 Google was found to have censored websites that provided information about Scientology, in compliance with the United States' DMCA legislation.[3] [4]
Google replaced the banned results with links to the DMCA complaint that caused the site to be removed. The DMCA complaint contains the site to be removed, and the organizations that requested the removal (e.g. [5]) The publicity stemming from this incident was the impetus for Google's making public of the DMCA notices on the Chilling Effects archive, which archives legal threats of all sorts made against Internet users and Internet sites.[6]
Sites critical of Islam
In early 2006 Google removed several news sites from its news search engine because complaints were received about various articles that were critical of Islam.[12][13] These included the The New Media Journal, which contained phrasing such as in the "World of Islam ... it is common for the men to have multiple wives, and harvest many children with each of his wives to train for martyrdom." Other sites removed included MichNews and The Jawa Report.
These sites remain accessible from Google's main search page as normal, but are no longer included in Google News. Google responded by stating that "We do not allow articles and sources expressly promoting hate speech viewpoints in Google News, although referencing hate speech for commentary and analysis is acceptable".
In January 2006, Google affirmed its intent to filter certain keywords given to it by the government of the PRC. The restrictions applies to thousands of terms and websites.[3] The censored content appears on google.cn. Google claims censorship is necessary to keep the PRC government from blocking Google entirely, as the case of the 2002 block.[4] The company does not plan to give the government information about the users who search for blocked content, and will inform users of restricted categories.[5] Google states on its help pages that it does not censor content, but it does block pages as demanded for in certain jurisdictions, such as DMCA requests in the United States. - rolty125, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Epic 2014!!!!! googlzon is comming
- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -2/+1Sorry but Google has censored too much compared to Live Search and others:
- chiefape, on 04/08/2008, -9/+4Just what we needed to hear. Goliath just got bigger.
- spammishking, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2I don't get it, I just finished reading an article in Wired that stated that Google was slipping and meeting it's quarterly expectations.... so which is it, is Google flat lining, or are they just growing and growing? I'm beginning to think that most articles are just hype to draw eyeballs, and none are correct
- buughost, on 04/08/2008, -1/+7As if google could do anything but go up?
- marv0, on 04/08/2008, -4/+1And google shall inherit the earth....
- Austin7687, on 04/08/2008, -4/+19Yeah, I used to only use Yahoo, but Google consistently yields better results.
- mrsteveman1, on 04/08/2008, -0/+4I used to use Yahoo because of better results, now Google seems better, especially with the way you can use keywords like site:
- pw378, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Yahoo was great back in 2003... but that was when they had Google providing their search results! :)
- Austin7687, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I remember that. It said:
Yahoo!
powered by Google
- Austin7687, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I remember that. It said:
- pw378, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Yahoo was great back in 2003... but that was when they had Google providing their search results! :)
- mrsteveman1, on 04/08/2008, -0/+4I used to use Yahoo because of better results, now Google seems better, especially with the way you can use keywords like site:
- wukillabee, on 04/08/2008, -14/+2Dogpile > google
- ducksinthewind, on 04/09/2008, -0/+0dogpile tops the Great Goo. plus, G's evil plan to take over is that they try to install on my puter every time the drive goes around. I'll take the dog
- Albear89, on 04/08/2008, -4/+4Go google.
- sporad1c, on 04/08/2008, -7/+0Google rules, lets just hope they don't get lazy when www. is replaced by google.com/
- nickspohn, on 04/08/2008, -7/+2google will bring world piece one day.
- marv0, on 04/08/2008, -2/+11and hopefully a spellcheck too, am i right?
- pktgumby, on 04/08/2008, -1/+8and hopefully a shift and/or caps lock button too, am i right?
- marv0, on 04/08/2008, -1/+5well played sir, well played
- pktgumby, on 04/08/2008, -1/+8and hopefully a shift and/or caps lock button too, am i right?
- ASeventhSign, on 04/08/2008, -1/+6piece of what?
- mrsteveman1, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Search pie
- Dylson, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Bacon.
- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -7/+1Peace? They are a piece of $#^ & true!
- marv0, on 04/08/2008, -2/+11and hopefully a spellcheck too, am i right?
- brownr21, on 04/08/2008, -9/+3Google sucks.
- sadilak, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1What!!. You must be one of those Non Conformists!. Google is awesome.
- pktgumby, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Wait, so now its cool to dislike Google? Dammit, I didn't get the memo!! Why didn't somebody tell me????!!!
- sadilak, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1What!!. You must be one of those Non Conformists!. Google is awesome.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 04/08/2008, -3/+3Just last week another site said it took a 4% hit while live went up 7%
/I take this with a grain of salt- TRScheel, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1The site didn't tell you how much they could be off by... And I doubt they could accurately figure that.
- TopDerek, on 04/08/2008, -2/+10I hate it when people hate on Google and look for the ways their going to mess up. Why not wait till they mess up before you try and poke holes in their plans. It's pretty much a fact that all companies will screw their customers in time, but I have been using Google services daily for 5 years and haven't had to shell out a dime. And I've loved every minuted of it. They'd have to screw me pretty bad to lose me as a customer and, frankly, I dont see it happening anytime soon. Long Live The King!
- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -7/+3I hate to say it but, oh hell I love saying it, Live search is so much better.
Thank god yahoo will be bought up and some real competition begins. And maybe this will get Google to stop editing content and/or leaving content that is inaccurate for political bias, or submit to China's political censorship. So far the only complaints about MS censoring have been with MSN blogs, for Google its been the actual search engine!- mrsteveman1, on 04/08/2008, -1/+5Live search censors china searches as well, your point is completely ignorant.
Oh yea, Live search sucks. - maninalift, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3I'm all for competition but Live Search? You must be joking.
- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -2/+1ACTUALLY you guys should do a fact check instead of being digg tards.
Because they DIO NOT oblige China and their censorship, Yahoo and Live search are being redirected to the Chinese search engine Baidu.
It's only Google that has seemed to compied with the Chinese government.
Scientology
In 2002 Google was found to have censored websites that provided information about Scientology, in compliance with the United States' DMCA legislation.[3] [4]
Google replaced the banned results with links to the DMCA complaint that caused the site to be removed. The DMCA complaint contains the site to be removed, and the organizations that requested the removal (e.g. [5]) The publicity stemming from this incident was the impetus for Google's making public of the DMCA notices on the Chilling Effects archive, which archives legal threats of all sorts made against Internet users and Internet sites.[6]
Sites critical of Islam
In early 2006 Google removed several news sites from its news search engine because complaints were received about various articles that were critical of Islam.[12][13] These included the The New Media Journal, which contained phrasing such as in the "World of Islam ... it is common for the men to have multiple wives, and harvest many children with each of his wives to train for martyrdom." Other sites removed included MichNews and The Jawa Report.
These sites remain accessible from Google's main search page as normal, but are no longer included in Google News. Google responded by stating that "We do not allow articles and sources expressly promoting hate speech viewpoints in Google News, although referencing hate speech for commentary and analysis is acceptable".
In January 2006, Google affirmed its intent to filter certain keywords given to it by the government of the PRC. The restrictions applies to thousands of terms and websites.[3] The censored content appears on google.cn. Google claims censorship is necessary to keep the PRC government from blocking Google entirely, as the case of the 2002 block.[4] The company does not plan to give the government information about the users who search for blocked content, and will inform users of restricted categories.[5] Google states on its help pages that it does not censor content, but it does block pages as demanded for in certain jurisdictions, such as DMCA requests in the United States.
- mrsteveman1, on 04/08/2008, -1/+5Live search censors china searches as well, your point is completely ignorant.
- darkchild, on 04/08/2008, -1/+4Not sure what to believe anymore. Only a week or so ago, DIGG had several articles which mentioned that Googles market share in search had gone down.
- TRScheel, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1Yea, I didn't see a margin of error on this site. Don't know about the ones before but I am sure it'd be fairly high for web hits.
- pickles46, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2You'll believe what you're told.
- winterspan, on 04/08/2008, -3/+7If it wasn't Google, it would have been M$. So far at least, Google has not shown ANY of the type of rancid, irresponsible user-spiting behavior that M$ has consistently shown when it monopolizes any market. On the contrary, Google continues to show it's outstanding character and unmatched ability to grow it's business and profits while simultaneously holding true to it's values and showing leadership on social, technological, and charitable causes.
Just today it was announced they are working with the United Nations and NGOs to create detailed regional maps of refugee camps and other areas receiving humanitarian aid to help organization, distribution, reporting, etc.
They are a truly standup company, and I am proud to be a shareholder (however small).- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -3/+1Really?
Try censoring their search engines for a certain communist regime!
Try taking away information because it might not be "politically correct"
Try NOT taking away incorrect information that is politically sensative because they THEN decide "its not their battle" to be politically correct.
Sorry Google has lost me and many others when they decide what they need to selectively correct or NOT in news or search engines! - Feej, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1I think I just vomited in my mouth a little.....
- jabberwolf, on 04/08/2008, -3/+1Really?
- mnemy, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Really? That's it? Figured they would have more than 67%. I don't know anyone who uses a different search engine. Even my mom uses it.
Actually, correction. I had a japanese ex that used yahoo (I guess yahoo is popular in japan?) until she was trying to find something, and I found it in 10 seconds via google. - pktgumby, on 04/08/2008, -4/+7I, for one, welcome our new search overlords.
In Soviet Russia, the internet searches you!
????
Profit!
etc., etc. - cubicledrone, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1When was the last time Google had a mass layoff? Oh, never. Imagine that! When you employ smart people and let them do their jobs, you win. Who would have thunk it? Now maybe the hairpiece crouton-pouring conference room gangrene infected unwiped asscrack rat ***** lying phone-flipping douchecannons in the rest of "corporate culture" can disconnect the cranial-rectal interface and stop ***** up our country.
But I doubt it. - samkline, on 04/08/2008, -2/+4That makes sense, considering that Yahoo and MSN both suck.
- petska, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1buy the stock and tuck it away for a few years
- pw378, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1I am still holding my Google shares that I bought for $100 on the day of the IPO. Didn't sell at $200, didn't sell at $400, didn't sell at $700.... I won't sell it until I retire because its a much better guarantee of a good retirement than counting on the Social Security program.
- petska, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0that sounds like a better plan than putting your money in a 2% cd =/
- pw378, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1I am still holding my Google shares that I bought for $100 on the day of the IPO. Didn't sell at $200, didn't sell at $400, didn't sell at $700.... I won't sell it until I retire because its a much better guarantee of a good retirement than counting on the Social Security program.
- mcoder, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3When people using Yahoo or Msn (it's delivered by standard in Internet Explorer) discover Google thanks to someone they know, they immediately switch to it and never come back. It was at least my case.
- walkingpeas, on 04/08/2008, -1/+2Google is usually the go-to for searches. However, it is not the "be all and end all". Frequently, I have had better results from Ask and Dogpile.
- daxsymbiont, on 04/08/2008, -1/+4google's secret: it's just simple.
in an age where yahoo was SPAMMING people with 1 million links to their sub-sites, google just had: box->search. the end.
if you notice they still keep the simplicity in anything they do.
(technically there was altavista and a few other simple ones but they had terrible down times I remember)
it's not about their 'superior algorithms' and stuff some nerds say, forget about it, it's their simplicity and ok, reliability.- maninalift, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Yes Google keep it simple. Also so they don't try to create products, they create tools. But the algorithms really are important. Do you remember what search engines used to be like?
- daxsymbiont, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1they worked generally fine, they were just bloaty such as yahoo and usually unstable, e.g. down.
yahoo directory was fine too, it's hard to find a good directory nowadays, too vast.
- daxsymbiont, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1they worked generally fine, they were just bloaty such as yahoo and usually unstable, e.g. down.
- maninalift, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Yes Google keep it simple. Also so they don't try to create products, they create tools. But the algorithms really are important. Do you remember what search engines used to be like?
- Grooblle, on 04/08/2008, -2/+2Article about Google? Digg'd.
- MyTypes, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1wow, and I am not surprised, i just did a post on the Google Algorithm, the Anatomy of a Search Engine, SEO's know why we focus on Google
- pktgumby, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1In my personal opinion, I'm sure it also had a lot to do with the actual name, with Google becoming synonymous with the word Search. It has become pretty common to use Google as a verb, i.e. "Just Google it."
That may have contributed to a bit of its popularity, as "Just MSN it", or "Just Yahoo! it" doesn't really flow, although I'm now wondering why "Just Dogpile it" never caught on.
Pretty similar to Xerox. - Slagtits, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1I too, am a believer, but it's not healthy for one company to have sooo much power and/or influence even such an omnipotent company as Google. So what do the heathens use, Dogpile and Search have been mentioned, any more, whats the "Next big thing"?
Keep up the good work Google - anarchytv, on 04/08/2008, -3/+3Google is *****. Have you ever tried to get a job with them? Try it. If you have anything less than a Master's Degree, you are shown the door. ***** those assholes. They are worse than IBM. Oh, they'll hire you through a scab temp agency. You'll be in a google data center doing google work, but you'll be an employee of Joe Nobody Temps getting nothing for benefits. You might as well be an imigrant farm worker.
- ryanatkin, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1SOMEBODY SOUNDS BITTER!
- Erebus1954, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2What will happen when Google knows all, sees all, and becomes sentient?
- LOVEANDEQUALITY, on 04/09/2008, -2/+1GOOGLE IS THE BEST!
- viz78, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1check this article :-http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_support ...
hmm, looks google is the follower now, probably resting in their laurels, because people are too blinded by google's initial brilliance, that they don't want to try anything else. You are missing out people!!! - eminiguy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I have used Google for about 8 years, but I am using Yahoo Search and MSN Live more and more often. I don't think that Google is enough for a thorough search, not to mention that Yahoo gives me better, cleaner answers more and more often than Google. So, yes Google's share of searches is growing, but their quality is declining in my opinion.
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