Internet search engines articles
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Statcounter Fixes Search Engine Market Share Data After Incorrectly Showing Google Lost Share
Over the past week, many have been windblown by Statcounter reporting that Google lost significant market share in the US and worldwide from March to April 2024. It turns out it was some sort of reporting bug, and Statcounter updated the data over the weekend.Folks like Glenn Gabe and Danny Goodwin immediately called out that the data seems to be wrong and they were right. Goodwin posted a story on Sunday about this as well.Originally and mistakenly, Statcounter showed Google's U.S. search...
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Google is DOWN! World's biggest search engine hit by outage plaguing thousands of users across the globe
Google has been hit with a worldwide outage that is impacting thousands of users. DownDetector shows issues appeared around 11am ET, plaguing search, the website and Google Drive.
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Google paid Apple $26.3b to be default search engine in Safari in 2021, it was just $20b in 2022
New court documents filed in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Google reveal a decline in Google’s payments to Apple for keeping it the default search engine on Safari. In 2022, Google paid Apple $20 billion for this privilege, down from $26.3 billion in 2021. This information is important because the Department of Justice (DOJ) argues that […]