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Google Blogs (Search Engine Marketing Specialist)
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The Dangers of Desktop Search- Google Tool as Spyware (Spyware Guide)

”So how could this be dangerous you ask? Imagine this scenario...

A miscreant goes to a university computer or a computer at your local library and installs the Google Desktop Search application. He takes a moment to hide the icon on the system and then walks away for a few weeks. He comes back and fires up the program and begins entering strings like "password" and "Credit card".

Man vs. Machine (Fast Company)

“Serial Webmeister Jason Calacanis survived the dotcom bust and went on to sell Weblogs Inc. to AOL for $25 million. He says his new search engine--powered by people, of all things--will give Google a run for its money. We almost believe him.”

Is Yahoo! Better than Google? (eMarketer)

“From the audience point of view, as measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, US consumers now express more satisfaction with Yahoo! than Google, Ask.com, MSN or AOL.”

Google Remains Goliath in Online Search
(E-Commerce Times)

“More than half of the searches conducted on the Internet used Google, according to the latest report from comScore, which measures Internet metrics.

Google had a 55.2 percent share of the search field, while Yahoo had 23.5 percent, Microsoft had 12.3 percent, Ask.com had 4.7 percent, and AOL had 4.4 percent.

The numbers also reflect a change in the way comScore conducts its research, the company said.”

Google Receives 64 Percent Of All U.S. Searches In July 2007 (Promotion World)

“Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 64.35 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending July 28, 2007.

Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.131, 8.79 and 3.21 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.52 percent of U.S. searches.”

The top 100 web search engines no one ever heard of
(Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing)

Top 100 Alternative Search Engines (Read/WriteWeb)

Is a 'Google killer' on the horizon?
(The Christian Science Monitor)

“Industry leaders to little-known contenders are trying to develop easier ways for Web users to find what they're looking for.”