By the end of the day, it is expected from Google to announce its financial report for the last year’s last quartal. A few days ago, Yahoo did a similar thing — it is confirmed that Yahoo has a quite negative balance (23% decrease of profit, in the last 8 quartals Yahoo is recording negative balance). And the one to blame is, guess who, no other than Google!
Now, the reason I am writing this post is not to talk about some things that everyone already knows by heart, but because I find interesting the shares controlled by Google and others. To make a long story short — complete domination — and as it looks, there is not a single rival to compete with Google.
Regarding the fact that a number of statistics indicators and researches are based on data relating to the USA, it is interesting that 48% of Google income comes from outside of the USA(what would Steve Jobs say to this ;), while 77% of total financial assets spent on some search network came through Google. This is not so odd if you take into consideration that Google search and content network cover over 85% of Australian and European market. More headache giving numbers (like Google income in the year 2007.) can be found in Forbes article.
According to efficient frontier, world’s consumption regarding search engines for the fourth quartal(Q4 2007) looks like this:
The only ‘intruder’ is the Japaneese market that is fond of Yahoo and not of the all present, mighty big G.