Posted By: Amandeep Mann
Interesting Facts:
- · Websites like Facebook and Twitter are the biggest thread to Google’s business.
- · Microsoft launched a search engine called Bing to compete with Google.
- · Google owns 62.6% of the Web search market.
- · Disputes between China and Google made leading Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to urge China to conduct a "transparent" inquiry into the attack.
The article talks about the world’s most powerful and widely used search engine, Google. As the IT industry is growing rapidly year-after-year, there is increased competition for Google. Many companies like Microsoft and Yahoo are now coming up with their new and advanced search engines which are shrinking business for Google every year. Google is now investing in mobile industry by collaborating with Android Mobile Operating system, which seems to be less successful for their future. Google being most powerful search engines is now creating fears amongst its users because it holds a large amount of private information about them.
The article also talks about the disputes between China and Google. It has been recently discovered that china is involved in various kinds of cyber attacks on its databases. These cyber attacks revealed enormous amount of secret information for Google users, this lead to the cancellation of Google’s agreement with Chine which badly affected their business. According to an insider, the losses included one of Google's crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company's Web services, including e-mail and business applications. Google later announced that Beijing Government renewed their license to operate in mainland China.
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