Live Searches Drop Below 1 Billion
August U.S. search share data shows ugly declines for Microsoft in 2008.
The month's data, released today by ComScore, is but a snapshot of a longer trend. I went back to the historical data, which shows how big Google gains are compared to Microsoft losses.
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21.9.2008 Search: Google, 61 Billion vs. Microsoft, 3.3 Billion
The latest research by comScore breaks out just how big search giant Google has become on a global basis, leaving would be competitors in the digital dust.
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13.10.2007 Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
Seventy percent of U.S. searches in June were done on Google Inc.'s search engine, according to Web measurement figures from market research company Hitwise Pty. Ltd.
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21.7.2008 Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
Google, the Internet's leading search engine, announced Monday that it is buying popular online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
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10.10.2006 Pondering Google 2.0: How will it get to $100 billion in revenue?
Google is projected by Wall Street to have annual revenue of $15.7 billion in 2008 and $19 billion in 2009. But the ambitions are higher–more like $100 billion in annual revenue. The big question: How will Google get there?
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26.9.2007 Google says it loses $1 billion a year to false ad clicks
Google Inc. loses about $1 billion US a year to "click fraud" or other invalid click-throughs on its ad service, the company says.
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4.3.2007 XP SP3 and Vista - 1 Billion PCs, Onward to 2 Billion with Windows 7
Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have quite a healthy playground at their disposal, no less than 1 billion PCs worldwide.
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23.6.2008 Microsoft Testing Multiple Searches on One Page
It seems Google isn’t the only one that has decided to redirect a handful of users to test a different approach to web search.
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19.5.2007 eBay Acquires Skype for $2.6 Billion
Confirming rumors the two companies were in talks, eBay on Monday announced it would acquire Internet telephony provider Skype for $2.6 billion in cash and stock, with another $1.5 billion contingent on performance. Skype will be used to facilitate communication between eBay's buyers and sellers.
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Microsoft to Invest $1.7 Billion in India
With plans to double its workforce in India over the next four years to 3,000, Microsoft on Wednesday said it would pump $1.7 billion into the country to develop new facilities for research and development. A special version of Windows for India will also be released in nine Indian languages.
"The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than the United States," Bill Gates told reporters. Microsoft's pledge follows news that Intel will spend $1 billion in India over the next five years, and an announcement by Cisco that will invest $1.1 billion. Microsoft's efforts will focus on bridging the digital divide and provide technology to the poor and those without computers.
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7.12.2005 Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion
Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it announced Friday.
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19.5.2007 Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion
Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun.
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20.4.2009 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Vista Expected to Generate $7 Billion in New Revenue
New York’s IT industry is expected to experience a significant financial impact as a result of the launch of the Windows Vista™ operating system.
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17.1.2007 Microsoft hit with $1.5 Billion Patent Verdict
After assessing damages based on each Windows PC sold since May 2003, a federal jury in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology.
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23.2.2007 One billion PCs worldwide by end of 2008
More than one billion PCs will be in use worldwide by the end of 2008, fuelled by high growth rates in emerging markets such as the Bric bloc of countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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11.6.2007 Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
In its race to become the runner-up on the search engine and online advertising markets, Microsoft is about to give Google a little something to chew on.
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1.2.2008 Confickers estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion.
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24.4.2009 Xbox Division Posts $1.26 Billion Loss
Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division, home to the Xbox, posted a hefty fiscal year loss of $1.26 billion, thanks largely to losses involved with the Xbox 360.
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23.7.2006 How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy
Microsoft has been touting Vista's new power saving features, saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs.
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26.11.2006 Microsoft’s Annual Revenue Surpasses $50 Billion
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 13% increase over the same period of the prior year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.31. Excluding $0.08 of previously announced charges primarily related to Xbox 360™ warranty policies, earnings per share would have been $0.39, an increase of 26% over the same period of the prior year when also adjusted for certain items.
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20.7.2007 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 EU Commission: Intel fined record $1.45 billion
The European Commission on Wednesday fined Intel a record €1.06 billion, or about $1.446 billion, for abusing its dominance in the computer chip market to exclude longtime rival AMD.
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13.5.2009 Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
It aims to grab more of the search market with a new slew of search services that copy, and try to build on, Google's approach.
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13.9.2006 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google, his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders. On Tuesday, Google may strike back at Redmond's heart: Microsoft Office.
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Google PC?
Just five years ago, Microsoft Corp. was considered the Big Bad Wolf of the media business.
Armed with a stockpile of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing, Bill Gates' company was expected to huff and puff its way into America's living rooms as well, with video game consoles, home networking systems and TV set-top boxes.
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3.1.2006 Google Sites For All!
Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts.
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22.5.2008 Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Google history - Milestones
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
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Microsoft Misses the Search Bronze Medal
ComScore's new search metrics coughed up some bad news for Microsoft: Fourth place.
This morning, the analyst firm announced
August worldwide search statistics using its qSearch 2.0 measurement system. ComScore reported 61 billion searches by people 15 or older, with
Microsoft sites (e.g., Live and MSN) accounting for a mere 2.16 billion searches.
No surprise, Google took the top spot, with
37.1 billion searches. How Google's number breaks down is interesting. Only 31 billion searches were from the main search engine, with YouTube
accounting for another 5 billion.
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11.10.2007iPhone, not Britney, leads searches on Google
Following the release of Yahoo's top searches for 2007, Google released its own -- with decidedly different results...
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06.12.2007Microsoft Search Queries Jump 15%.
In June, Google Sites retained its lead in the U.S. core search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8
percent in May. Google was followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.9 percent, up from 20.6 percent in May), Microsoft Sites (9.2 percent, up from 8.5 percent in
May), Ask Network (4.3 percent), and AOL LLC (4.1 percent).
Americans conducted 11.5 billion searches at the core search engines,
representing a 7-percent increase versus May. Google Sites handled more than 7 billion core searches (up 6 percent from May), followed by Yahoo! Sites
with 2.4 billion (up 9 percent), and Microsoft Sites with more than 1 billion (up 15 percent).
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20.07.2008Google outpaces search market growth
Google's quantity searches in the United States during July surged 16 percent over the last year, cementing the company's lead at the top of the
market, according to statistics released Tuesday by Nielsen Online.
Google had 60 percent of the 8 billion searches in the month,
Nielsen said. Yahoo, whose searches dropped 11 percent, had 17.4 percent of the market, and Microsoft, whose searches dropped 10 percent, had 11.9
percent of the market.
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20.08.2008Microsoft Search Queries Jump 15%
In June, Google Sites retained its lead in the U.S. core search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8
percent in May. Google was followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.9 percent, up from 20.6 percent in May), Microsoft Sites (9.2 percent, up from 8.5 percent in
May), Ask Network (4.3 percent), and AOL LLC (4.1 percent).
Americans conducted 11.5 billion searches at the core search engines,
representing a 7-percent increase versus May. Google Sites handled more than 7 billion core searches (up 6 percent from May), followed by Yahoo! Sites
with 2.4 billion (up 9 percent), and Microsoft Sites with more than 1 billion (up 15 percent).
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20.07.2008Google Growth Continues with $1 Billion Profit
Google closed out its fiscal
year 2006 having reaped just
over $3.2 billion in revenues
for the final quarter, a gain
of two thirds over the fourth
quarter of 2005. Of that $3.2
billion, just over $1 billion
of that is net earnings, an
86% annual gain – meaning
Google is even more efficient
now than it was last year...
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01.02.2007Murdoch could block Google searches
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said in an interview with Sky News Australia that newspapers within his empire - including the Sun, Times and Wall
Street Journal - could block Google searches entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web. In the last
few months, Murdoch has got into a war of words with Google, accusing the search giant of "kleptomania" and being a "parasite" for including bits
of articles from Murdoch's news websites in its free Google News service. According to the Guardian, when Murdoch was asked why they hadn't
simply opted to remove their websites from Google's search indexes, he said it is on the cards.
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09.11.2009Is Google polluting the Globe?
Google have been in the spotlight of an investigation regarding energy costs, stating that Google releases roughly as much carbon dioxide into the
ozone in two Google searches, as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea. This all sounds like very little, but when you add it all up, including more than
200 million searches a day, that asks the question, how much does ‘googling' hurt the environment? The concern is not Google polluting the
environment, but the increasing demand for energy that Google craves to operate its massive data centers, the energy needs to be created somewhere.
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12.01.2009Study: Google gets bulk of world search
Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute - most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study
estimates.
Yet Baidu.com Inc. is strong enough in China and NHN Corp. in South Korea to crack the global top five in comScore
Inc.'s inaugural report on worldwide search patterns. The report, based on August traffic patterns, was scheduled for release Wednesday.
In the past, comScore reported search numbers for only a handful of countries. The numbers from comScore and rival Nielsen/NetRatings are
closely watched by industry analysts, even as the measuring firms use online recruitment techniques dismissed by many traditional pollsters.
According to comScore's qSearch 2.0 service, more than 37 billion searches worldwide went through Google in August. That's about 60
percent of all searches, higher than Google's 50 percent in the United States.
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10.10.2007Google, YouTube Deal Closes at $1.775 Billion
Google announced early Tuesday
that its acquisition of video
sharing site YouTube has
closed. The mostly stock deal
was initially priced at $1.65
billion, although at Monday's
closing price of $481.03 per
Google share, YouTube walked
away with $1.775 billion...
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14.11.2006Google logs half of all US searches
Overall, Americans are
searching more than they did a
year ago: queries have
increased by 11% since
2006.
Google, the
only search engine among the
top five to gain market share,
logged more than half of all
search queries last month.
Research firm comScore
recorded 7.6 billion search
queries in May, 3.9 billion of
which were made from Google,
giving the search engine a
50.7% market share. The figure
is a 1% increase from April,
when Google claimed a 49.7%
market share, and an increase
of more than 3% since the
start of 2007.
Yahoo saw its market share
drop from 26.8% to 26.4%. The
firm has seen its share of the
search market fall by more
than two per cent since the
beginning of the year. Time
Warner's search services,
which include former net giant
AOL, dropped from 5% to 4.6%
in May. All other search
engines combined accounted for
3% of all queries. Of the top
five search engines only
Microsoft's saw its share of
the market remain constant,
logging 782 million queries
last month and giving the
company 10.3% of the US
market.
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27.06.2007Twitter's new business model
Twitter has been looking for ways to make revenue and profit off of its Microblogging service, which has been the focus of companies like Google to
purchase Twitter and rumored of Apple interested in Twitter, which was later debunked to be false. The companies new business model is saved
searches, much like big online companies do, such as Google, which indexes your searches for content, generating data for the company showing exactly
what the top searches are. Twitter can't seem to do this alone and in return may acquire Bit.ly to do it, in exchange for Twitter stock if the
company decides to acquire Bit.ly.
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08.05.2009Authors Sue Google Over Book
Searches
With Google Print, search site
is building massive database
of copyrighted material...
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23.09.2005Google Offers $1 Billion for
5% of AOL
Google has offered to pay $1
billion for a 5 percent stake
in America Online, the Wall
Street Journal reported
Friday, effectively pushing
Microsoft out of any
negotiation with Time Warner.
The news marks a major setback
to Microsoft's efforts to
gain a more even footing with
Google in the search industry...
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17.12.2005Google Personal Search Gets
Trendy
Google Zeitgeist is great for
seeing global patterns in Web
searches, but what about your
own search history? Google has
expanded its Personalized
Search feature to track
similar trends in the browsing
habits of each of its users.
You can find out what topics
you're most interested in and
what sources you value most...
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21.12.2005Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion
Google has agreed to purchase
popular video sharing site
YouTube for $1.65 billion in
stock, the two companies
announced after the close of
the stock market Monday. The
deal marks the largest
acquisition for Google in the
company's eight-year history...
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10.10.2006Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Google
Forget about that $44 billion takeover bid for Yahoo. Microsoft's latest assault on Google is slier.
Since May Microsoft has
been reimbursing people up to half of the value of items they buy using its search technology. The gimmick isn't working. In July Google's share of
all searches jumped to 60% from 53% a year ago, while Microsoft's share slumped to 12% from 13.6%, according to Nielsen Online...
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28.08.2008Google Heads to Court to
Protect Users
Google will face off against
the United States government
in a federal court on February
22 over whether the Department
of Justice can force the
search giant to turn over
records from its database. The
conflict stems from a subpoena
demanding information on
searches, which Google refused
to comply with citing privacy
concerns...
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27.01.2006Bing takes a little more market share from Google
Microsoft's newest search engine, Bing, has gained a little more traction in the fight against Google's web search dominance. Bing took an
8.23% cut of US web searches for the month of June which is up from Microsoft's previous search engine which served only 7.81% percent of searches
for May. Microsoft is refusing to let Google win the online search wars and is promoting Bing with online and television advertisements. Microsoft
is still investing heavily and the latest rumor is that it still considers partnering with Yahoo as a viable option to gain a stronger foothold in the
search engine market.
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01.07.2009Google's Stock Price Hits New High
Shares of Google jumped to a new high of $559.99 on Friday, a surge which comes on the heels of a few positive analyst reports and news Thursday
that co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page landed on the top 10 list of Forbes' richest Americans, tied at No. 5, each with a net worth of $18.5
billion. On Thursday, Robert Peck, the Bear Stearns analyst wrote a report on how Google plans to reach $100 billion in revenue, a goal that
Hewlett-Packard expects to achieve just this fiscal year.
Although Peck did not give a time frame for Google to reach the $100 billion
goal, he hosted a conference call with another consultant on Thursday and they outlined six important focus areas for Google: searches on mobile
devices, online video, publishing, business software applications, its e-payment system that rivals PayPal, and multimedia advertising. According to
Peck, reaching the $100 billion goal in revenues will require the search engine giant to meet several challenges, " but stopping the Google
juggernaut is not going to be an easy task " for its competitors.
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