Beyond the vaunted minimalist Google home page, the next nineteen Google domains barely account for 20 percent of visits to all things ending in Google.com.
Hitwise illustrated this in a recent Google Finance currently ranks 39th in the Business & Finance - Business Information category, with 0.29% market share of visits to the category, Yahoo! Finance in contrast, ranks #1 in the same category with 35.6% of market share
In fairness, Yahoo has a lengthy head start in the finance category. They'll enhance that with their observed on his GigaOm blog that he felt "some of the newer offerings weren't really sticking to the wall." Turns out he was right, and he speculated on why that could be happening:
At the recent Google Press Day, I was intrigued by the continuous chanting of the "focus on search" and back to the basics of 70% mantra by the senior Google executives. I wondered to myself, well perhaps, a little fear of the big brother up north is making them circle the wagons a little.
Of course, Malik is referencing Microsoft as the primal growl instilling The Fear into Google, and he makes an excellent point in doing so.
We suggested another company needs to pay attention to The Fear, even if their CEO would rather not hear it.
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