The Industry Standard - Google to receive 75% of searches - Comments

Jonny was here

Hmlidkyu — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:45:48 -0400

Jonny was here

This seems incredibly

Eric Hill113600 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:42:16 -0500

This seems incredibly unlikely, but we need to wait for the December figs.

November metric is out at

David Kuan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:43:14 -0500

November metric is out at 71.97%.

October metric is out at

David Kuan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:53:56 -0500

October metric is out at 71.7%

September metric is out at

David Kuan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:02:27 -0400

September metric is out at 71.2%.

August figure is out at

Bradley Baker — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:10:08 -0400

August figure is out at 71.01%, up from 70.77%, so only a bit of growth.

Hi Sue, This prediction is

Eric Hill113600 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:26:48 -0400

Hi Sue,

This prediction is all about the US market and using Hitwise's figures. I'd love it if you suggested a prediction for us basing the judgment on an IDC report. Is there something relevant that we can look at for the end of 2008? How often are the IDC figures updated?

There is a HUGE conception in this country that Google owns 70% of search. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal just used those exact figures on stage at DEMOfall08.

IDC hs solid figures showing

Susan Feldman — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:28:23 -0400

IDC hs solid figures showing that only about a third of the searches on the Web go through ANY of the search engines. Increasingly, they go directly to the specialized sites such as Amazon, eBay, etc. In addition, Baidu, last time I checked, gets more queries than Google/Yahoo/Live combined. So, if this is about worldwide searches, then the question is what percentage of 35-40% of searches worldwide go through Google. If it's not about worldwide searches, with search volume growing faster outside North America than inside it, perhaps we need to rephrase the question?

--Sue Feldman, IDC

Also, comScore metric showed

David Kuan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:52:06 -0400

Also, comScore metric showed a little over 61%. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/21/google-takes-us-search-market-share...

Wonder how is HitWise

David Kuan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:07:16 -0400

Wonder how is HitWise different than Nielsen NetRating. The latter pegged Google at under 61%. http://www.netratings.com/pr/pr_080819_3.pdf

70.77% to be exact. With 5

David Kuan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:55:06 -0400

70.77% to be exact. With 5 months to go and an average pace of 1%, this one is going to be close with December being the most likely month to break 75% and judgement date around Jan 15, 2009.

Up to

Garrick Hileman932530 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:07:16 -0400

Up to 70%:

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2008/08/googles_share_of_us...

@Bradley, again I agree that

David Kuan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:31:03 -0400

@Bradley, again I agree that this is not gonna happen.

69.17% up from 68.29% the

Bradley Baker — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:17:09 -0400

69.17% up from 68.29% the previous month. So gained almost an entire 1% marketshare.

6 more months exactly as successful as this past one and it would finish the year at 74.45%.

Google is up 8% YOY. It would need to go up 8+% from here in 6 months for this prediction to be judged a success.

I still don't see it happening.

It has 70% as of July

Roger Harris — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:42:33 -0400

It has 70% as of July 18.

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/google-approaches-70-share-of...

Google to receive 75% of searches

Shiv Bhandari — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:47 -0400

Judgment made on January 13, 2009: Google failed to reach 75% of U.S. search share in 2008. The big G ended the year with 72% in December, according to Hitwise. The community has correctly guessed this prediction would not happen. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: Hitwise came out with its search market share numbers for May, 2008.

In the U.S., Google was up slightly to 68.3%. This is a prediction that Google will have at least 75% of the U.S. market share in any month of this year, according to Hitwise.