Microsoft Bing gains miniscule market share
Microsoft Bing is not yet challenging either Yahoo or Google in the search engine market but its market share is improving slowly.
Bing was launched last month as Microsoft’s latest challenger in the search engine market which is largely dominated by Google.
Yahoo is the first target for Microsoft Bing [...]

Google Maps now more popular than MapQuest
Google has conquered yet another online segment with their Google Maps service.
Hitwise has reported that Google Maps now receive more hits compared to MapQuest.
The report however admitted that web users spend more time on MapQuest. This is likely to be connected to user unfriendliness of the MapQuest [...]

Google has a 72% market share in US search industry
Hitwise has revealed in its latest report that Google now has a market share of 72% in the US search industry.
They have gained 8% in its share in the last 12 months.
The company had a market share of 72.11% of all U.S. searches [...]

Gmail traffic in US now matches that of YouTube
If you need any proof on the growing popularity of Gmail, here it is.
Hitwise has reported that the US based internet hits on Gmail are now matching YouTube.
Gmail recently overtook YouTube to become the 10th most visited website in the US market.
Gmail and YouTube [...]

Google dominated search in 2008
It’s no hidden fact that Google is the search engine industry leader.
Google Search continues to dominate the market.
Hitwise has released some statistics which show that the company served 69.5 percent of Internet searches in the US last year.
This is an improvement of 8 percent over 2007.
Yahoo and [...]

YouTube gains popularity in US market
Google owned video sharing service YouTube is more popular than ever.
As per latest reports, YouTube accounted for more than 75% of US traffic on video sharing services.
Hitwise said that YouTube had more than nine times the traffic of the second most popular service MySpaceTV.
MySpaceTV had a market share of 9%.
Google [...]

Google now serving 65% of US searches
Google continues to dominate the Internet search market as they captured 65% of the US market in November.
This is amazingly three times the number of searches on Yahoo which is at second spot.
Google improved its share from 61.84% in the same month a year ago as per the data [...]