Last 2009 News

Filed in archive Business News on December 31, 2009

2009 statistics: 28% of websites use Google Analytics

28% of websites have Google Analytics - pretty impressive, while 12% of the sites have AdSense. [...] 5% of websites have a Twitter link and 5% have a Facebook URL, yet only 2% have both a Twitter and a Facebook URL.

You can get the raw data here.

New York Times: search, but you may not find

"Today, search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's new Bing have become the Internet?s gatekeepers, and the crucial role they play in directing users to Web sites means they are now as essential a component of its infrastructure as the physical network itself. The F.C.C. needs to look beyond network neutrality and include 'search neutrality': the principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance."

Related: NYT runs quack, self-serving anti-Google OpEd

Baidu Google v. Baidu: which company will win China?

"Beijing-based Baidu dominates: According to Jennifer Li, Baidu's chief financial officer, Baidu's market share for search in China was about 77% in the third quarter, up from 75.6% in the second quarter. Google, she says, lost share in China, dropping to 17% in the third quarter, from about 19% in the second quarter."

Our Google government

"Over 60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google."

"Does this mean that we've now handed the majority of our state governments' operational data to a single privately-controlled company?
"In other words, according to Google, United States state governments have literally handed over our public data to be held and managed by a private company which has well-publicized partnerships with other governments such as China. The data is physically stored in Google's buildings, on Google's servers, managed by Google's employees. This means Google now controls our government?s access to it's own data."

Bing logo the worst new logo of 2009.