details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8174763.stm
It's a war zone out there. :)
Desperate times require drastic actions. ::)
I think I'd even trust Microsoft and Google over Yahoo!
My feeling is that there are no rivals that Google need to be worried about. Microsoft can team up with whoever they like, but people are not going to move away from Google. Google is so popular because it offers what users want - simplicity combined with great search ability. I don't believe anyone can better it.
Yahoo is too fussy and Bing is just laughable. I really don't think Google should be too worried.
Quote from: Sebby on Jul 29, 2009, 23:49:29
My feeling is that there are no rivals that Google need to be worried about. Microsoft can team up with whoever they like, but people are not going to move away from Google. Google is so popular because it offers what users want - simplicity combined with great search ability. I don't believe anyone can better it.
Yahoo is too fussy and Bing is just laughable. I really don't think Google should be too worried.
Thing is Sebby we have more to be worried about from google being the user
I have always preferred Alta Vista over any of the others, just because it was the first one I used. I hate that bl**dy yoog that seems to inhabit the firefox address bar :mad:
Quote from: Gary on Jul 30, 2009, 05:45:31
Thing is Sebby we have more to be worried about from google being the user
True, but that doesn't mean people are going to move away.
They're not. When I started using the web, I used to describe it to people as the world's biggest library, only without the index. Google provided that index and changed how we use the web completely. I can't imagine not using it now.
I don't want to rain on MS/Yahoo's parade but Google accounts for a staggering 97.1% of links through from a search engine to one of my busier websites. Way down in second place comes Google (Images) at 1.1%. I think we have a clear winner ;D
Some other statistics I've just pulled up for the same site which might interest some of you are:
Operating Systems
Windows 94.4 %
Unknown 3.3 %
Macintosh 1.4 %
Linux 0.7 %
Browsers
MS Internet Explorer 52.1 %
Firefox 33.3 %
Google Chrome 9 %
Opera 3.3 %
Safari 1 %
Netscape 0.6 %
Mozilla 0.3 %
I find the fact that 9% of users are already on Google Chrome rather suprising and with Google's OS and Google Wave still to come Microsoft really needs to start pulling something out of the bag.
That browser share is really significant, Zap, it wasn't so long ago that MS would have been in the 90s.
Thats a big change in numbers, saying that the rate they punt out new versions of Chrome it will be up to version 4 soon
Quote from: Rik on Jul 31, 2009, 10:00:46
That browser share is really significant, Zap, it wasn't so long ago that MS would have been in the 90s.
Indeed. And I'd have thought it will continue to decrease.
Edit: I guess, though, we should consider the type of visitors. For example, technical visitors will tend to use something other than IE.
This is very true, Seb, I suspect a site like the BBC would have very different results. It would be quite interesting to see the varying percentages across sites and get an idea of what kind of users they have.
Interestingly enough those figures are not a million miles away from the ones produced here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8177829.stm
MS Internet Explorer 60%
Firefox 31%
Others (less than) 5%
Given that my stats are current and the ones reported in the article are going to be older to some degree, that might explain the 9% I'm getting for Google Chrome. I'd say the majority of regular visitors to the site I pulled the stats for are representative of the average computer user but there will be a small percentage that are a little more informed and technology driven.
MS must be concerned to see their share slipping away.
It's their own fault - it's a bad browser. They only had such a big share in the past because no one knew any different.
Agreed. I only moved to IE when Netscape was dropped, and hated it.