[LINK] Google now 70% of US search engine users

[Adam Todd]

The thing I find amusing is that Google is a CHOICE made by the user.

A user can enter www.google.com into their browser or can choose not to.

User can also just randomly plug in domain names in hope of finding 
what they want, something that sometimes does work faster than 
sifting through unrelated top 40 Google results that have nothing to 
do with the search you have selected but hey, those pages had more 
links with the same keywords.

There is no monopoly if the user still has a choice.  Just because 
people choose not to use Yahoo and MSN shows that Yahoo has less 
quality information.  I don't use Yahoo, it's a waste of time.  The 
results are always lame and pathetic and lacking greatly.  Half the 
stuff I've ever search for is eventually found on google but I rarely 
find in Yahoo.

Yahoo spends too much time selecting what it wants to tell the users, 
whereas google spends too much time using prior search and click 
results to tell the users what other users want them to see.

Relevance is no longer a factor in search engines.  Even Yuil was 
pathetic.  No really.  I did a few searches and the nonsense that 
came back was shocking.  In fact searching for things I know to be 
very visible didn't even show up in Yuil.

In Australia if you want something interesting, try blackstump.com.au 
it's still about after may years.  Great for families and kids, a one 
man show and I kinda miss hosting it :)



At 09:02 13/08/2008, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Guess google is more than 70% here, where Yahoo & MSN aren't used so much?
>
>--
>Hitwise provides more proof of Google's search dominance
>Posted by Jim Kerstetter August 12, 2008 9:52 AM PDT
>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10015300-93.html
>
>
>Don't call Google's search business a monopoly, the company's executives
>have reminded us.
>
>Unfortunately, we're running out of other ways to describe it. Researchers
>at Hitwise released new data Monday indicating that Google in July topped
>a 70 percent share of U.S. Web searches (70.77 percent to be exact).
>
>That's up 10 percent from the same month a year ago and 2 percent from the
>previous month. Yahoo search was second at 18.65 percent, MSN search was
>third at 5.36 percent, and Ask.com came in fourth at 3.53 percent.
>
>At 70 percent, Google is joining a club of tech giants that really know
>how to dominate a market, including Cisco Systems in routers, Intel in
>chips, and Microsoft in a whole bunch of stuff.
>
>Now before I get e-mails from Google's lawyers, let's add these caveats:
>There's probably no magic number at which trustbusters decide a company
>must be brought to heel. But with increasing dominance, comes increasing
>scrutiny by folks in Washington..
>
>--
>
>Cheers people
>Stephen Loosley
>Victoria Australia
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