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- 2006/07/05 I don't know, but..
For all the "told ya so!" stories about Google not living up to the hype, I was actually stunned to see the figures on Google's non-search products--not by how poorly Google is doing, but rather by how WELL it's doing.
Come on, MapQuest has been around for 40 years. Google Maps? Less than 2 years and it's already reached 80% of MapQuest's traffic!!! Besides, MapQuest's traffic has been on a decline as well.
Gmail? Again, around for about 2 years and already reached a quarter of the traffic of Yahoo & MSN mail. Both Yahoo mail and MSN mail have been around for about 10 years now, I believe.
Google News at No. 2? Froogle at No. 8? Wow. I don't know about others, but to me these are some crazy numbers. Orkut with about a third of the traffic of MySpace (worldwide)? Again, wow.
I've been one of the biggest Web 2.0 evangelists in Korea and never thought there would be a day that Everything Google will be No.1. Apparently, the current Google-bashing is happening as a reaction against the initial hype associated with each of Google's product launching. Google search took about 5 years to reach the top. Most of other Google services are still in their infant phases, but are still doing really well, IMHO.
I'm not here to "defend" Google by any means. I just thought that there was no ground for bashing Google for not being no.1 in everything. The majority of Google's revenues come from search anyways. Others are only there to "help" its search business.
Maybe people were just afraid of the 2.0 movement riding too fast. Would they say the same thing a year from now if those services are ranked higher?
Note:
Most of the numeric figures used in this post are based on Alexa. Too bad that I couldn't compare traffic of each of Google's services to those of other services side-by-side because Alexa only gives you traffic information on "google.com", not "maps.google.com" or "news.google.com". Also, I do understand that Alexa isn't the best tool for this kind of analysis, but I simply don't know what else I could use.
Come on, MapQuest has been around for 40 years. Google Maps? Less than 2 years and it's already reached 80% of MapQuest's traffic!!! Besides, MapQuest's traffic has been on a decline as well.
Gmail? Again, around for about 2 years and already reached a quarter of the traffic of Yahoo & MSN mail. Both Yahoo mail and MSN mail have been around for about 10 years now, I believe.
Google News at No. 2? Froogle at No. 8? Wow. I don't know about others, but to me these are some crazy numbers. Orkut with about a third of the traffic of MySpace (worldwide)? Again, wow.
I've been one of the biggest Web 2.0 evangelists in Korea and never thought there would be a day that Everything Google will be No.1. Apparently, the current Google-bashing is happening as a reaction against the initial hype associated with each of Google's product launching. Google search took about 5 years to reach the top. Most of other Google services are still in their infant phases, but are still doing really well, IMHO.
I'm not here to "defend" Google by any means. I just thought that there was no ground for bashing Google for not being no.1 in everything. The majority of Google's revenues come from search anyways. Others are only there to "help" its search business.
Maybe people were just afraid of the 2.0 movement riding too fast. Would they say the same thing a year from now if those services are ranked higher?
Note:
Most of the numeric figures used in this post are based on Alexa. Too bad that I couldn't compare traffic of each of Google's services to those of other services side-by-side because Alexa only gives you traffic information on "google.com", not "maps.google.com" or "news.google.com". Also, I do understand that Alexa isn't the best tool for this kind of analysis, but I simply don't know what else I could use.
