Google has been dominating the search engine market for years, but at least there are some competitors that have a few percent each.
But if you look at mobile search, i.e. search on mobile devices, which is more or less the smartphone market, Google is utterly crushing the competition to a level that it’s never managed in the regular search market.
Just look at this very telling chart, showing Google’s overall search and mobile search market shares in relation to those of Yahoo and Bing, its two closest rivals. (These are global stats.)
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On Sunday WikiLeaks released 92,201 records of individual events or intelligence reports from US military files pertaining to the war in Afghanistan.The Guardian has also produced an interactive Google Map. The Guardian's 'The War Logs Map' geotags a selection of 300 of the key intelligence reports.
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Google compiles and holds vast amounts of the world's data. It's supposed to be totally private but sometimes governments need that information for investigations, and they request it from Google (or its subsidiaries like YouTube, Blogger, or Orkut). Other times, governments find a piece of data offensive or erroneous, and request that Google remove it from its database entirely. The search giant makes all these requests public. This is a look at which countries ask Google for the most information on its users, which ask Google to remove the most information, and how often Google gives information.
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Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what’s the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook’s grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly that Facebook may soon face some stiff new competition.
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How Google Works. It’s a flow type chart that diagrams the process of how google gets it data and what happens in the second after you search. It’s a $20 billion a year process for google, and pretty interesting.
Google hopes to provide the richest user experience in their service, especially search, and one method of doing this is to collect user data. Every time you use one do Google's services. they capture valuable user information. Here is insight into how and what they are collecting.
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Microsoft. Internet Explorer. Giants in the online browser market. Undisputed for years. But since 2003, IEs' dominance has been dropping with a whole host of new browsers vying for attention.
Google is a pretty interesting company. In fact, pingdom.com think it’s so interesting that they put together this infographic with a ton of facts and figures about Google.