Google Tops The World

Even as the globe searches through Google, at a rate of 1.4 million queries per second, its vaunted leadership hasn't been enough to shunt aside competitors in China or Korea.

comScore credit for the latest bit of Google good news. Google grabs the bulk of global search.

But not all of it. ComScore's qSearch 2.0 service said the estimates for global query numbers lined up this way for the top five search providers in August 2007:

Google, 37 billion queries Yahoo, 8 billion queries Baidu, 3.3 billion queries Microsoft, 2.2 billion queries NHN, 2 billion queries

Baidu serves as Google's big competitor for the Chinese market. China's rapidly growing Internet userbase has enticed companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft there, to the point where the companies ignore complaints about the government-mandated censorship they adhere to with search results.

In Korea, a powerful infrastructure of true broadband service, unlike the dearly-priced minimal service US broadband providers dole out in meager bits, contributes to that country's affinity for tech services. An

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