Nielsen said Google retained its command of the U.S. search market with 67.3 percent of all searches, but the spotlight is on Google’s search business in China in the wake of the search engine’s threat to cease operations in the country. Most analysts agree that the closing of Google’s China operations would be a disruption of the company’s potential and promise to, if not overtake Baidu, at least pump valuable ad dollars from a virile foreign market. China boasts more than 360 million Web users.
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One day after Google boiled the high-tech waters with its threat to exit China’s business, Nielsen said Google retained its command of
the U.S. search market with 67.3 percent of all searches.
That’s up almost two percentage points from the 65.4
percent it totaled in November, the …