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Gap Between Google and Competition Widening

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jump-the-pit dept.

eldavojohn writes "Business Week has up an article trying to explain why it is getting harder and harder to 'catch' Google in the search engine game. We've heard of many different kinds of search engines and many different companies entering the market but: '... Google keeps gaining share in the face of newly launched capabilities on other engines. In August, Google sites gained 6.8 percentage points of search share from a year earlier, according to researcher comScore Media Metrix. Meantime, Yahoo lost 1 percentage point, Microsoft's sites lost 3.3 percentage points, and Ask.com lost one-half of a percentage point.' All of this on the heels of recent news that A9 scaled back its features. Is it possible to think of a number better than a one with a hundred zeros behind it?"

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  1. Yep. by tygerstripes · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is it possible to think of a number better than a one with a hundred zeros behind it?
    A google-and-one?

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    1. Re:Yep. by RancidMilk · · Score: 5, Funny

      That doesn't make one "bit" of difference... wait... or does it?

    2. Re:Yep. by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nigel: Well, it's one searchier, isn't it? It's not google. You see, most blokes, you know, will be searching at google. You're on google here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on google on your computer. Where can you go from there? Where?

      Marty: I don't know.

      Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

      Marty: Put it up to google plus one.

      Nigel: google puls one. Exactly. One louder.

    3. Re:Yep. by stunt_penguin · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm a fan of '3 ???' , as it always seems to lead to profit.

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  2. Even better! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Google-plex!

  3. Is it possible to think of a number better ... by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it possible to think of a number better than a one with a hundred zeros behind it?
    Yep...... 1

    Although it is the loneliest number..

  4. Re:+Plex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is of course the Karma Whore.

  5. the infinity search engine by everphilski · · Score: 5, Funny

    but the domain name is so long noone ever uses it

  6. One hundred zeros... by NekoXP · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be the other 100 search engines, then?

  7. Re:A link for Clarification by LindseyJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you meant what you spelled: a check, not a cheque. Damn Yanks! ;)

  8. Re:Inertia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Inertia is a powerful thing

    I tried to use Inertia, but couldn't find this search engine. What's the URL, again?

  9. length? by D4rk+Fx · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not the length of your search engine that matters. It's how you use it.