Google grew extremely impressive

Research firm ' HitWise and NetRatings ' has released a report stating that the Google information search engine has experienced tremendous growth over the years, officially 'toping' its competitors. Other stubborn ones like Yahoo, Microsoft .

Currently Google has accounted for 43.1% of the global information search market share, Yahoo ranked second with 28% and Microsoft 's MSN ranked third with 12.9% market share.

From April 2005 to April 2006, Google's market share reached 42.7% compared to 36.5% in 2005, while Yahoo was down to 28% compared to 30.7% for the month. In 2005, MSN also suffered a "dramatic decline" from 16.1% (April 2005) to 13.2% (March 2006). Ask.com also declined but not much, from 6.1% (4-2005) to 5.8% (4-2006). Time Warner's AOL was also kicked out by Google with a market share of only 5.8% (4-2006) compared with 9% last year (April 4).

In March 2006 alone, there were 2.9 billion searches made on Google and Yahoo also gained 1.3 billion.

In e-mail services, Yahoo still tops the market with 42.4% market share; Microsoft's Hotmail ranked second with 22.9% market share . Although 'aggressive' with the capacity of Inbox in the form of 'champion' like that, but Google's Gmail market share is only good . 2.54%, okay See is disappointing.

Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li said: ' Although it has been easy to acquire a lot of people using the Internet in the last 5 years, Google is actually very easy to lose its customers. Searching for information is just one of many services on the Internet, Google is currently too spread out in many areas of application investment and there will be a moment when they reveal loopholes . '

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