Google's relentless growth in search, Microsoft's decline

December 11, 2007 | Matt Marshall

Everyone knows Google dominates search, and it’s getting old to report on the barrage of statistics showing Google’s continued rising stock price, rising revenues, profits and expansion into other fields.

But Google’s continued momentum in search engine market share is truly remarkable. Month after month, Google continues to climb, and that means advertisers are ever more eager to flock there to spend dollars. All the while, Microsoft’s search engine share continues to plunge. It looks like even Ask will one day overtake Microsoft. Yahoo looks stable at best. At what point will Google’s market share peak? The latest stats from Hitwise show Google accounted for 65.10 percent of all U.S. searches in December.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.