Ezekiel wrote:
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Bing And Yahoo See Small Decline In August
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>> | Worldwide Microsoft and Yahoo combined grabbed 8.42 percent of the
>> search
>> | market in August, a decline of 0.35 percent from July (8.77%). Google
>> remains
>> | then leader in the global search market with 89.57 percent in August
>> (89.23%
>> | in July).
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/09/01/bing-and-yahoo-see-small-decline-in-august
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> I'm having problems believing this number. The largest single market in
> the world is China and Baidu is the most dominant search engine in China.
> Google
> tried to buy^h^h^h "innovate" Baidu a few years back but the deal never
> went through. In China, Baidu is king by a long margin so I'm skeptical of
> this number.
Fair comment.
Statcounter gives Baido as over 71% in China for August, and AFAIK China now
has more Internet connections than the U.S.?
- yet worldwide, Statcounter shows Baido as less than 0.6%, and
NetApplications shows it coming down from 8.87% to 3.46 from July to
August.
I can think of all sorts of reasons for such distortions - a large number of
U.S. sites in the sample, China has many people connected to the 'net but
they don't use the connection much, etc., but it's still odd, isn't it?
It makes me wonder just how daft it is to equate hits on certain web sites
with the number of people using something.
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