Google’s logged 87.8 billion searches in December 2009, or 66.8 percent of the more than 131 billion searches conducted worldwide. Google hopes to grow its search and ad dominance by focusing on a convergence of mobile search, advertising and applications, including location-based technologies with a heavy dose of social networking. Smartphones as Google’s Nexus One, paired with mobile search, applications and advertising seem like a fine way for Google to extend its search dominance from the desktop to the PC. Google will pit its mobile technologies against those of Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple in 2010.
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Google’s strategy to quot;double down quot; on its core
search business helped the company clean up as the top search property with
87.8 billion searches in December 2009, or 66.8 percent of the more than 131
billion searches conducted worldwide.
That’s good for a 58 percent incr…