Comments on: Google oppresses poor, makes good money doing it http://www.owen.org/blog/552 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MatGB http://www.owen.org/blog/552/comment-page-1#comment-2271 MatGB Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:58:25 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/552#comment-2271 I still agree with your father on the China thing, but on the BBC %?  I suspect it's wrong, my non-political site is mostly US based users, and Yahoo normally places it higher in results than Google, yet Google is still the course of 80% of search referrals.<br /><br />Although it may depend on how it's counted; AOL is also Google for example.  Could be 44% of users use Google, but many more searches are done using it; low end 'net users are more inclined to use defaults like MSN? I still agree with your father on the China thing, but on the BBC %?  I suspect it’s wrong, my non-political site is mostly US based users, and Yahoo normally places it higher in results than Google, yet Google is still the course of 80% of search referrals.

Although it may depend on how it’s counted; AOL is also Google for example.  Could be 44% of users use Google, but many more searches are done using it; low end ‘net users are more inclined to use defaults like MSN?

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