Google, the world’s favourite search engine, just gets more and more powerful. The question is what to do about it. Even though it remains largely a one-product company – search – there is nothing on the horizon to dislodge it.A year or two ago, as web activity started migrating to mobiles, Google’s dominance was at risk – not least because Yahoo was ahead in making mobile search usable. But recent statistics from netmarketshare.com, which have provoked remarkably little discussion, suggest Google now has an astonishing 97.5% share of mobile search, even before its own Android operating system has been fully rolled out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/16/victor-keegan-google-mobile
Should Google run the mobile gateway?
Google, the world’s favourite search engine, just gets more and more powerful. The question is what to do about it. Even though it remains largely a one-product company – search – there is nothing on the horizon to dislodge it.