Google deserve to be called "Big G" or "Search Engine Giant" or any other similar phrase out there. With 37 billion searches in August, the market leader executed half of all search request around the world .
Google deserve to be called "Big G" or "Search Engine Giant" or any
other similar phrase out there. With 37 billion searches in August, the
market leader executed half of all search request around the world .
Yahoo
comes second with 8.5 billions searches followed by Baidu, the chinese
language search (3.2 billion), then Microsoft (2.1 billion) and finally
the korean NHN search engine with 2 billion. These figures collected by
analysts from Comscore revealed that most search activities are based
in the Asia/Pacific region. For the month of August, it represented 258
millions users carried out 20.3 billions searches. Europe is the second
region with the largest total of searchers with 210 millions users
followed by North America with 206 millions users.
Focusing on the Asia Pacific region and due to the fact that this
market has a huge potential it also has lead to some unethical changes
conducted by the search engines. Some even are in contradiction to the
first goal of the Internet - access of information. In China for
example, Google, Yahoo, Msn have to obey to the strict Chinese laws
controlling freedom of speech. This includes employing their own
“monitors” to carry out government censorship orders and committing to
remove any web pages that are considered politically sensitive. That
shows that even these Giants of information have their Achille's heels.
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