For now Google is considered to be major search engine both for number of users and search results relevancy. At least a certain number of people entrusted Google 2.9 billion times to perform information search for them. To say the truth, I am among those people, though I have no idea what part of those 2.9 billion is due to me

Google continues to expand launching more and more services and acquiring new customers. Implementation of such services as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google maps and so on, helps both branding the company and making customers loyal to the search engine.

An example of this “loyalty” can serve not only the fact that according to Nielson/NetRatings, Google was searched 2.9 billion times in March 2006, compared to 2.06 billion times March 2005; but also that (as I’ve once mentioned in the previous article) Google’s first quarter revenue reached $2.25 billion compared to $2.00 billion for the same period last year.

Here is how Google CEO Eric Schmidt commented this point in a release:

Google had an exceptional quarter with strong growth and profitability, from both Google properties and the network. We are driving this growth through investments in our infrastructure and our people, product innovations that attract new users, and relationships with advertisers and partners around the world.

Although Yahoo! trys at every possibility to compete with its fierce competitor, this is turning out to be quite a ‘race’. In order for you to compare mere numbers, here are Google’s and Yahoo’s search-engine use growth rates for the same period (March 2006):

Google – 41%

Yahoo – 47%

So you can easily see, Yahoo! saw even greater increase, but still it’s less than half as many searches in gross total when compared to Googles volume (1.33 billion times).

So, will Google be #1 for a quite long period of time or not - it’s hard for me to predict, the only thing the statistics says is that for now Google is the best.

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