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AMIT CHAUDHARY
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INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
Information industry
Search engine websites (direct competitors)
Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL etc
Search Engines look through there own databases to find what it is that you are looking for.
These are information retrieval systems.
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GOOGLE - OVERVIEW
Founded 1998 IPO 2004 Headquarters : 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, United States Key people : Larry Page (Co-Founder and CEO) Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman) Sergey Brin (Co-Founder)
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GOOGLE - OVERVIEW
Revenue : US$ 29.321 billion Employees : 28,768 (As of 2011-06-30)
Subsidiaries : YouTube, Double-click, On2 Technologies, Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob, Zagat, Motorola Mobility
Receiving several hundred million queries each day.
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Google Mission Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Rankings
#102 in FORTUNE 500 S&P 500 Dow Jones Global Titans #30 in FT Global 500
Key people :
For many years they outsourced their search service to other providers
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Yahoo Overview
Revenue : US$ 06.324 billion Employees : 13,600 Mission :
Yahoo Overview
SearchScan Yahoo Yahoo Search Yahoo Directory Yahoo Shortcuts Yahoo Cheat Sheet Ultimate Yahoo Search List
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BING OVERVIEW
Bing is a web search engine from Microsoft. Formerly it was called Live Search, Window live Search and MSN search. Started on 3rd June 2009 Available Languages: 40 languages. Daily changing of background image.
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BING OVERVIEW
Media features Video thumbnail Preview Image search with continuous scrolling images results page
Bing overview
Local info Current traffic Information Restaurant Reviews Movies played in an area Integration with Hotmail Integration with Facebook
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Query processing
MSN offers a tool that estimates how commercial a page or query is. Demographic Prediction Tool; Online Commercial Intention Detection Tool;
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SEO Tools
Google
Sponsored Links Language Translator Google AdWords Google Translate
Yahoo
Yahoo Marketing Babelfish
Bing
Yahoo Marketing and MSN Ad Centre Microsoft Translator
Business Perspectives
Google has the largest search distribution, the largest ad network, and by far the most efficient search ad auction.
Being the largest content site on the web makes Yahoo! run into some inefficiency issues due to being a large internal customer.
Search brands for building their own technology in house are MSN Search, Microsoft AdCenter, and Windows Live Search.
Social Aspects
Google is trying to make software more collaborative and trying to get people to share things like spreadsheets and calendars
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CONCLUSION
Google dominate other search engine such as Yahoo!, Bing etc as it displays more concept matching and informational results relevant to users.
Each search engine has differ role to play.