Yahoo vs. Google in Japan

Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August)
Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August)

Search Engine market share in Japan for Yahoo : 65.9%
Search Engine market share in Japan fo Google : 27.8%

Google’s new deal with Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo will provide Google search to 48 million NTT DoCoMo customers.

Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL

Popularity of each of these mail accounts:

Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April)
AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April)
Gmail : 90 million (approx. projected for November 2007)
Yahoo mail : 250 million (approx. projected for November 2007)

Growth rate of Gmail is 53.6% compared to Yahoo (3.21%) and Google is projected to overtake Yahoo by 2010.

Google traffic growth in 2007

The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent.

Gainers
iGoogle : 267.64%
Book search : 54.66%
Gmail : 53.6%
Maps : 51.57%

Losers
Product Search : -73.26%
Scholar : -32.14%
Video Search : -11.82%

Is Advertising Gambling sites legal?

No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to lose cumulatively $31.5 million for having accepted money to advertise gambling website between 1997 and June 2007. The individual fine imposed is as under

Microsoft : $21 million
Yahoo : $7.5 million
Google : $3 million

Ego-surfing : Growing like crazy

Ego Surfing: The act of searching your own name on Search Engines.

This has almost doubled in five years. 22% of users ‘googled’ their own name back in 2002. But recent  studies show it has now increased to 47 percent.

53 percent of users also use Search Engines to search for personal and business contacts.

Demographics of the Searchers

In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are

Health and Medical : 44.64% (Highest)
Business and Finance : 17.04% (Least)

What is Knol

Knol is Google’s ‘unit of knowledge’. It is the new tool introduced by Google to let users to write articles on subjects they are authoritative in. In other words, it is a Wikipedia that will have one particular author for every content page. Unofficially, Knol is also called the Googlepedia It is expected to provide stiff competition to a few of the existing websites offering similar services, like

Wikipedia
About.com
Squidoo.com
Mahalo.com

NOTE: KNOL is also the Stock quote symbol for Knology Inc.

Search Engine market shares for the American market

For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows:

Google (55%)
Yahoo (19%)
Microsoft (14%)
AOL (4%)
Ask (3%)

Which is the biggest email service?

Well, Google is not the leader in this one at least. The Comscore Media metrix for October shows Gmail jumped a 64% increase in userbase from the same time last year, but the overall standings are as follows:

1. Yahoo Mail - 262 million
2. Microsoft - 256 million
3. Gmail - 87 million

Is Google transparent and accountable?

According to the 2007 Global Accountability report:

Google Net income: $3.25 billion
Transparency : 0 percent
Environmental and Social impact evaluation : 0 percent
Overall accountability : 17 percent

Google does not make any commitments to operating in an open and transparent manner

Google does not make any commitments to evaluate its environmental or social impact, nor does it have any management systems to support or oversee such evaluations