Comments on: Google snatches search share from rivals

Second-place Yahoo and third-place Microsoft dropped down a smidgen from October to November, ComScore reports.

[BlitzBoy1120]

Come on, it's Google. This isn't much a of a surprise to me since Google is getting better everyday.

[Sam Papelbon]

OR... google users were more inquisitive and felt like making more searches...

OR... google returned too many bad results so people had to make additional searches...

OR...

[RompStar_420]

OR you have Google, you you have to talk shilznick.

[limefan913]

Same headline, different month.

[idfubar]

Would a market share of 90%+ be a necessary and sufficient condition for being considered a monopoly?

[JCPayne]

Nope, go look up the term monopoly.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Monopoly?jss=0

"exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly."

The graph shows there are other players. Cable companies are municipal monopolies. Microsoft is a monopoly because they wouldn't allow the PC manufacturers to sell other O/Ses in their product line. The other carriers just need to better their offerings and they'll be competitive with Google. Google wasn't always where it was don't forget before them there was for example Altavista.com (Which mind you is now owned by Yahoo.)

[lordmorgul]

Google's share increased 0.4%.... are you kidding me? A story about a shift so small it is deep into the margin of error? Bore me.