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Google then vs Google Now

Has Google really grown that much since 2003?

I was recently browsing through old emails – and I mean old, 2003 to be exact – when I found an email from my old boss. The subject was “Google Rules…” and it included some stats on search engine market share.

It put Google at an impressive 54.7% of market share. At the time, we were quite surprised. How could one company dominate an area that was still very new and “up-and-coming”?

They were competing with the likes of Yahoo, MSN and AOL. MSN were grabbing market share with their aggressive hotmail.com roll out, while AOL’s barrage of floppy disks pre-loaded with their proprietary software was being sent to everyone and anyone.

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Here’s just how big Google’s slice of the pie was back then.

If we fast-forward to August 2017 and look at statistics from NetMarketShare, Google has blown out to an impressive 81% market share in the search game. It’s taken them 14 years to make up another 25%.

So, despite their expansion into pretty much every part of our lives, they’ve only grown 25% of what they already had. Yahoo is sitting at nearly 5% and AOL has dropped to a measly 0.04% (obviously the floppy disk spam flopped).

And while none of us is even remotely surprised at the growth and domination, we should reflect that a similar report from WordTracker.com in 2002 showed Google had 35.11% market share. I think we all should be looking at what Google did over a decade ago, and not what they are doing now.

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  • Denis Corke
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    The extent of their success is reflected in the fact that of all the mentioned search engines it is the only one with its own dictionary entry.

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