Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Google’s Morbid Search-Market Obesity
They’re not the competition; they’re the environment in which you compete. The IT industry used to say that about IBM, but today the adage seems equally applicable to Google, which dominates the search market just as IBM once dominated the computer industry. According to new metrics from Hitwise, Google’s share of the U.S. Internet search market grew to 67.9%–a 4% increase year-over-year.




