Most people know that Google is the preferred search engine. But did you know that Google also is topping the charts when it comes to mobile phone searches?
When it comes to traditional search, Google dominates the market, with 63.7 percent of all searches conducted in the United States, compared to Yahoo‘s 20 percent. However, those numbers don’t take into account mobile Internet devices. A new report from Net Applications, an Internet marketing firm, found that Google accounts for 97.5 percent of all mobile phone searches.
On top of that, BusinessWeek recently reported that Dell is looking into the option of using Google’s Android operating system for a new line of inexpensive laptops. Dell would be the second major computer manufacturer to talk about abandoning Windows for Android, following the lead of Hewlett-Packard.
There also have been reports that Google could buy Twitter for a few hundred million dollars. Apple also has offered to buy Twitter for $700 million. But Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone has said he won’t sell the company. However, a new way of searching tweets could be more Google-friendly.
Santosh Jayaram, vice president of operations at Twitter and former head of search quality at Google, recently revealed that now Twitter’s search engine will scan each tweet, find embedded links, scan the linked page and index the content to produce more accurate results. Twitter’s search engine also will rank results according to the hottest Internet or cultural trend of the moment, as well as the popularity of each twitterer.
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