dominance

Damien Seguy has passed on the latest PHP statistics for October 2008 on the nexen.net site.

Here's a few highlights:

Perhaps the biggest threat to Google's increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google's broadening reach is giving it unchecked power.

A slew of companies, ranging in size from tiny startups to Google, are springing up virtual worlds of their own to challenge Second Life's dominance of the small but growing market.

Damien Seguy has official published the PHP statistics for July 2008 to the Nexen.net website today. Here's a summary:

Google might be the leader in search today, but that lead can't last forever. It can last a very long time, however.

Ars takes a look at the reasons for the company's dominance.

No one disputes the fact that Google dominates the online video space. The company controls an estimated 34 percent of the market, according to comScore, and its closest competitor, Fox Interactive -- only has about a 6 percent share.

The lion's share of Google's dominance, though, comes from its YouTube acquisition. In fact, there are millions...

When it comes to data mining and predictive analytics, Microsoft Corp. might not be the first company that comes to mind.

That could change, however, especially if Donald Farmer, Redmond's principal program manager for SQL Server Data Mining, has his way.

Google's dominance of the worldwide market for Web search dipping slightly to 62.8 percent in February from 63.1 percent in January, though Google gained share in the U.S. market.

The overall volume of searches done through Google dropped in February to 5.86 billion from 6.14 billion.