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Google Practically Dominates Mobile Search

Google Practically Dominates Mobile Search Recent figures from netmarketshare.com reveal that Google now has 97.5 per cent dominance of the mobile search engines according to a report from The Guardian.

This discovery may be due to the fact that Google has been so successful on the iPhone and iPod touch screen. So far relatively few people use their mobiles to search on the Internet but it seems those that do use Google search.

Google’s rival Microsoft has recently launched its Live Search on mobiles so there is some competition there. Nevertheless Google’s search facilities appear to be tailor made for mobiles especially in the case of the new unlimited data packages or the “sender pays” system.

A recent good move for Google is its recent alliance with Twitter, in which it is likely to revive its Google Talk, a free Internet telephone service, which failed to thrive first time around. Once posted, Twitter’s 140 character tweets take only 20 seconds to appear on search engines.

Google has such a monopoly on the Internet and obviously has much sensitive data. We tend to trust Google with our information perhaps because of their original motto: Don’t be evil. Since that time Google has moved into sensitive territory such as giving into Chinese censorship and developing its book scanning project.

It seems that Google is likely to have a hold on mobile Internet in the future and then the company may be run by different people who may become more power-driven than their predecessors.

Perhaps a system of international monitoring may be the answer rather than just existing options for social networks to adopt another search engine. More competition is what is needed to avoid Google having a total monopoly.

Industry News posted by Romany on 06 May 2009

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