Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 percent

Top five providers all show at least 5 percent growth in the number of searches in October, but Google's lead continues to grow, ComScore says.

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Monopoly business? Maybe.

Maybe search can be a monopoly business, but it isn't a business that locks you in such as the Windows product from Microsoft.<br /><br />If Google can monopolise search, then it is because their product is better than anyone else. But Google doesn't come pre-bundled like Windows.<br /><br />In fact it is amazing that Google can beat the others at all, given the democratic nature of the WWW. They must be better than everyone else and must be getting better to grow against the others.

[t8]

Monopoly business? Maybe.

Maybe search can be a monopoly business, but it isn't a business that locks you in such as the Windows product from Microsoft.<br /><br />If Google can monopolise search, then it is because their product is better than anyone else. But Google doesn't come pre-bundled like Windows.<br /><br />In fact it is amazing that Google can beat the others at all, given the democratic nature of the WWW. They must be better than everyone else and must be getting better to grow against the others.

[Info_Max]

Google Up = America Down

Who cares that Google is up when American society/life/economy is way Down?<br />I mean during the same period that Google shares are up 5 times, US$ has fallen an astonishing 50% against Euro, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, in fact the currency of any developed country. <br /><br />And since nothing speaks more clearly &#38; LOUDER to the health of a nation/economy than the value of its currency versus other countries a 50% drop in value of US $ vs Euro, Canadian $, etc. means that the market/world is saying that life/economy of USA is half as valuable as that of Canada, Europe, etc. <br /><br />Now you have to ask yourself:<br />1- Why has the value of currency/economy in US collapsed by 50% compared to Canada, Europe, etc.?<br />2- Who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs?<br />3- And what can we do about this nearly 50% collapse in value of life/economy in US?<br /><br />For the answers to above questions you can go here:<br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.anoox.com/good/discuss_dollar_down.jsp" target="_newWindow">http://www.anoox.com/good/discuss_dollar_down.jsp</a><br /><br />BTW, this same place where you can read the above answers is a search engine, but it is a search engine with a big difference compared to Google. <br />1- It is powered by the Knowledge of the people, that is YOU and me<br />2- it is operated on a not-profit-motivated basis, as a result cost of Advertising through it is an astonishing 50 to 90% less than rates for same Ads on Google<br />3- They are giving their profits away to address the issues that are killing the US economy,<br />you can read about it via the above link.<br /><br />So if you want to see Google take over more and more of the Internet, if you are blind to<br />how bad that is for US economy, then keep using Google, OTOH if you want to see Google<br />control over Internet, over our minds and wallets reduced, then use &#38; advertise on other<br />search engines such as Anoox which are independent.<br /><br />P.S., For sake of full disclosure, I am an Advertiser on Anoox, so I want to see more<br />and more people use it, so that businesses like me can SAVE 90% on search engine Advertising, also I love the fact that they are giving 100% of their profit away for support of causes that are killing US economy.

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This is spam

Those Anooxy people really know how to spam.

[Info_Max]

Google Up = America Down

Who cares that Google is up when American society/life/economy is way Down?<br />I mean during the same period that Google shares are up 5 times, US$ has fallen an astonishing 50% against Euro, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, in fact the currency of any developed country. <br /><br />And since nothing speaks more clearly &#38; LOUDER to the health of a nation/economy than the value of its currency versus other countries a 50% drop in value of US $ vs Euro, Canadian $, etc. means that the market/world is saying that life/economy of USA is half as valuable as that of Canada, Europe, etc. <br /><br />Now you have to ask yourself:<br />1- Why has the value of currency/economy in US collapsed by 50% compared to Canada, Europe, etc.?<br />2- Who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs?<br />3- And what can we do about this nearly 50% collapse in value of life/economy in US?<br /><br />For the answers to above questions you can go here:<br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.anoox.com/good/discuss_dollar_down.jsp" target="_newWindow">http://www.anoox.com/good/discuss_dollar_down.jsp</a><br /><br />BTW, this same place where you can read the above answers is a search engine, but it is a search engine with a big difference compared to Google. <br />1- It is powered by the Knowledge of the people, that is YOU and me<br />2- it is operated on a not-profit-motivated basis, as a result cost of Advertising through it is an astonishing 50 to 90% less than rates for same Ads on Google<br />3- They are giving their profits away to address the issues that are killing the US economy,<br />you can read about it via the above link.<br /><br />So if you want to see Google take over more and more of the Internet, if you are blind to<br />how bad that is for US economy, then keep using Google, OTOH if you want to see Google<br />control over Internet, over our minds and wallets reduced, then use &#38; advertise on other<br />search engines such as Anoox which are independent.<br /><br />P.S., For sake of full disclosure, I am an Advertiser on Anoox, so I want to see more<br />and more people use it, so that businesses like me can SAVE 90% on search engine Advertising, also I love the fact that they are giving 100% of their profit away for support of causes that are killing US economy.

[t8]

This is spam

Those Anooxy people really know how to spam.

[flickrz]

Just a thought!

I was wondering why Ask and Yahoo are loosing marketshare. Than I figured that if you are searching on both of them you are less likely to make spelling mistakes so eventually, you endup firing less number of queries on those search engines. Which, in case of google; isn't true. For example if I say "Geicko" on google; it would show results of "geicko" and not for "geico" even though it would suggest me to find it. However, if I do the same on yahoo it automatically gives me results for "geico". This way people end up firing less number of queries on yahoo than google. I know this is not an exact science. But, atleast that is my experience. I switched to yahoo from google back in april 07 after I didn't find something for 3 pages. Now, on yahoo I hardly have to go to 2nd page. But, thats just my experience and there could be people with quite opposite examples. Now, I am perfectly happy with yahoo search.

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Did you know that Yahoo refused to buy Google

Now Google could buy them.<br />Yahoo thought that they didn't need them because they were too arrogant.<br /><br />Pride goes before a fall as the saying goes.<br /><br />I love it when the small guy wins, but I also hope that Google do not become as arrogant as Yahoo was.

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Just a thought!

I was wondering why Ask and Yahoo are loosing marketshare. Than I figured that if you are searching on both of them you are less likely to make spelling mistakes so eventually, you endup firing less number of queries on those search engines. Which, in case of google; isn't true. For example if I say "Geicko" on google; it would show results of "geicko" and not for "geico" even though it would suggest me to find it. However, if I do the same on yahoo it automatically gives me results for "geico". This way people end up firing less number of queries on yahoo than google. I know this is not an exact science. But, atleast that is my experience. I switched to yahoo from google back in april 07 after I didn't find something for 3 pages. Now, on yahoo I hardly have to go to 2nd page. But, thats just my experience and there could be people with quite opposite examples. Now, I am perfectly happy with yahoo search.

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Did you know that Yahoo refused to buy Google

Now Google could buy them.<br />Yahoo thought that they didn't need them because they were too arrogant.<br /><br />Pride goes before a fall as the saying goes.<br /><br />I love it when the small guy wins, but I also hope that Google do not become as arrogant as Yahoo was.