Google Now Has 1 Billion Users – Surprised?
Dave’s just read on the Telegraph that Google now has 1 billion unique visitors – and I thought Facebook had a bigger userbase! According to the ComScore report cited on the Telegraph, this is how the top few companies break down:
Google over 1000 million (1 billion) unique visitors (8.4% up year on year)
Microsoft 905 million unique visitors (15% up year on year)
Facebook 714 million unique visitors (30% up year on year)
Yahoo 689 million unique visitors (11% up year on year)
Judging from these figures it looks as though Facebook is likely to catch Google up in a few years time, it looks as though Yahoo and Microsoft might, but based on Google’s innovation, I think this is unlikely – when people start switching operating systems (I will be) they’ll find less people have Bing/MSN set as their home page. If you’re like me, you setup FireFox/Chrome as soon as you install windows and you don’t even bother to configure IE because you’re not going to use it.
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Koozai Mike - http://www.koozai.com
Just goes to show that even if Facebook beats Google in one month, it has a long way to go before it’s top dog. Although it seems rumors on the death of Facebook have been greatly exaggerated.
Chris Gedge - http://www.further.co.uk
Those figures are across the companies entire networks though arent they? For example YouTube etc, not just the search engines?
Ving - http://www.vcmarketing.co.uk
” If you’re like me, you setup FireFox/Chrome as soon as you install windows and you don’t even bother to configure IE because you’re not going to use it.”
Haha, that’s what I do too whenever I do a clean Windows format.
Gareth - http://www.learnseo.org.uk/
Yeah, the comment above from Chris, they are probably across the entire network of owner properties – right?
Either way, with $8 billion in revenue per quarter, it’s really hard to be surprised by anything Google does nowadays. Other than the awfulness that appears to be Chrome OS.
Fresco Creative SEO - http://www.frescocreative.com
On the whole, I feel google will always be the benchmarker. There are many other search engines and there are many on the up but I feel google is the most user friendly and simple of the lot; this is what has made google what it is. It is good though to see they are facing more and more competition!
Gary - http://eckstein.id.au
Sure is going to be interesting to see what Microsoft does; I can’t see them being happy with falling market share however they still have a massive volume of unique visitors!
Akash - http://iseoforgoogle.wordpress.com
I think Microsoft still has a high market share because of its long time Windows brand, but what I admire the most about Google is that it created itself a huge brand from nowhere.
What I think about Facebook or any other social networking site is that it is never for a long run, people get bored from networking sites or move on to something. That’s what happened with Orkut! Few more years before it happens to Facebook unless it has something extremely new or exciting to offer, but still I never see facebook or any other sites being a threat to Google’s market share for a long time.
Web Tasarim SEO - http://www.heptasarim.com
If Microsoft won’t launch and develope its search engine “Bing”, it might be out of race. In fact, I would like to don’t remain lonely Google in challenge. Nevertheless I don’t like Microsoft servises like IE, Bing, MSN. Then let’s help Yahoo’s development 🙂