10 Markets Where Google Wants to Win

[mandy]

10 markets Google is trying to dominate: search, advertising, video, blogging, mobile, start pages, communications, social networking, photo sharing, and office suites

full article: http://mashable.com/2007/07/07/google-vs-everyone/

Google became the Internet’s biggest company by dominating what has become the Web’s biggest market segment – online search and paid text links. Google claims a dominating 56% market share in search (Nielsen/NetRatings, May 2007) , but that hasn’t stopped dozens (probably hundreds) of companies from trying to grab a piece of the action. Most of the major search engines also come with their own advertising system, while a few startups actually rely on Google to serve up paid text ads.

Yahoo – Once the Web’s biggest search engine, Yahoo still handles a reported 21.5% of searches worldwide. The company’s much anticipated but delayed Panama system for text ads has finally went live, with early results pointing to better click through rates...