Gap Between Google and Competition Widening

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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Real revenue comes from AdSense

[Anonymous Coward]

Their search engine may be best of class, but the actual revenue comes from AdSense. There is a lot of competition to AdSense and they actually are having more and more negative press because of the way partners are treated. Many sites thrown out of adsense because of too strict abuse-detecting algorithms, with no way to defend or come back.

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I guess they have not heard of AnooX

[Sea_of_Cortez]

I guess the author of this puff piece about Google has not heard about AnooX search engine. Once you hear about AnooX, once you find out what it is all about, why it is so much better for us than Google or Yahoo, you were very likely will switch to it. In case you have not used them still, they are here: www.anoox.com They are better for search engine users & Advertisers. Check them out and you will see why people who become aware of Anoox are blown away by it.