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Google Fends Off Yahoo, Bing to Grab 66% of Search

Google notched 66.1 percent search share in September, compared with 16.7 percent for Yahoo and 11.2 percent for Bing. Google Instant queries are counted in comScore’s total core search. – Google’s September U.S. search market share crept up to 66.1 percent from
65.4 percent in August, according to new data released from comScore Oct. 13.

Perennial No. 2 search player Yahoo, whose results are now powered by Microsoft
Bing, slipped from 17.4 percent in August to 16.7 percent throu…


Google Apps Turns 3 as It Fends Off Microsoft, IBM in the Cloud

Google finds itself in a daunting position on Feb. 22, the third birthday of Google Apps Premier Edition. The company is trying to dislodge legacy on-premises installations from Microsoft and IBM while fighting off SAAS solutions from those same companies. It also has to compete with new cloud offerings from Cisco Systems, as well as from a slew of startups such as Zoho, MindTouch and others. But Google, Microsoft and IBM will be the main protagonists in the battle for pre-eminence in the market for cloud, or Web-based, collaboration software.
– When Google launched its Google Apps Premier Edition to the market three
years ago, it marked a bold bet on the future of collaboration software.
The collaboration software market was, and still is, ruled by Microsoft and IBM,
which boast more than 650 million customers for their respective Micro…


Bernanke Fends Off Calls To Tame The Fed

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped steer the economy away from what he calls “Depression 2.0.” Now he’s trying to defend the Fed itself.

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