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Google's Share of Searches Falling? Or Increasing?
prostoalex writes "Get two research companies in the room, and you'll likely end up with three opinions. Bear Sterns quotes ComScore Networks data, which says that Google's share of searches is slipping, down to 36.9% in June 2005. WebSideStory, a Web research company, on the other hand, claims that in June 2005 Google hit a new record as far as share of searches, hitting 52%, and leaving rivals far behind."
I thought it was 72%?
"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." - Variously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Marshall, Mark Twain and many other dead people.
So if I see some arbitrary absurdity on a line chart than it cancels all meaning of all other studies?
Welcome to American politics.
That technique is used to contradict Global Warming, evolution, environmental studies, and legalities that don't fit arrogant people's ignorant views.
" If more people tried Yahoo! again, they might be pleasantly surprised."
Did they finally clear all that junk off their homepage? What I want is a search engine, nothing more, nothing less. I don't want:
* Autos (Already have a truck)
* Chat (Already use teamspeak)
* Finance (Already have a bank account)
* Games (Already have WINE)
* GeoCities (Already have a colocated server)
* Groups (I could always hit groups.yahoo.com)
* Health (Already have gym membership)
* Horoscopes (Waste of time?)
* HotJobs (Already have job)
* Kids (Don't have kids)
* Mail (Already have GMAIL)
* Maps (Already use maps.google.com)
* Messenger (Already have Y! IM on gaim)
* Mobile (Don't need or want a cell)
* Movies (If I want a movie I'll look at fandango) * Music (Don't buy music online)
* News (Already go to news for nerds, stuff that matters)
* People (Don't ened to find ugly people)
* Search (AH HA! THIS IS WHAT I WANT!)
* Personals (Don't need homely or lonely women)
* Photos (Already have a gallery on my website)
* Real Estate (Don't need swamp land)
* Shopping (Pricegrabber.com does this for me)
* Sports (Hate sports)
* Travel (I know where I want to go for vacation, lest a website tell me where to go)
* TV (I own one, unfortunately)
* Yellow Pages (Google has reverse number lookup, and I can find nearly anyone with their search box)
Why do they give me all this USELESS crap on their homepage. What ever happened to a simple small interface like googles where they don't fit everything in the world on their homepage. Thank god they redesigned their layout -- it was even worse before.
Just give TEXT FIELD, and I can type those terms in the field. If I want to buy a car, I don't need to click on "AUTOS" on the homepage, I can type "USED CAR SALES" In the search box. Thats what a search engine should be -- not a table of contents/category listing -- but a SEARCH engine that SEARCHES content!