Year after year, and month after month we keep an eye on the search engine market share picture. Over and over again in the US, we see Google completely dominating (more so with each year it seems), Yahoo a ways back, and Microsoft even further back.
Who Do You Want To Be Today? – HP and Microsoft Planning Identity Systems Dominance
Dennis Miller once said that “Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being a bad guy in a James Bond movie.” Last week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it, along with Gates’ Microsoft, is getting set to make a push into yet another market currently dominated by small niche players and Unix-based software platforms — identity management systems at the national level.
Google Looks to International Dominance
I’m not going to bore you by linking to every Google Q4 revenue article that’s out there. But I will highlight any that have an interesting angle.
Yahoo Regains Search Engine Dominance
Monday July 14th may very well go down in history as the day that the Search Engine industry grew up and finally gained the respect it so deserved. It was this day that Yahoo announced that in a deal, comprising of $1.63 billion in cash and stock, it had acquired the popular pay-per-click company Overture.