Saturday, June 9, 2007

Google Universal Search - Video and Maps Benefit

Ccolumn in TIME this week is about Google's dominance of the search market which, as of this week, measures at 64.8% of all U.S. Internet searches, more than double the nearest competitor Yahoo! Search. They've had many requests for an updated Google Properties chart posted here, but decided to do a pre/post analysis of the recent Google Universal Search initiative announced May 16, 2007.

Percentage U.S. Visits to Custom Category of Top Google Properties
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It appears from this early analysis that the big winners for this new format are YouTube and Maps, while Image Search and News (which under the older format were occasionally featured top of page) are on the losing end.

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