One more quick post for the day, before I go and watch the rugby (go Canes!). Hitwise has done a table showing relative popularity of the Google properties:
Compare this to Alexa's breakdown:
- google.com - 75%
- mail.google.com - 8%
- images.google.com - 8%
- groups.google.com - 2%
- video.google.com - 2%
- news.google.com - 1%
- froogle.google.com - 1%
- Other websites - 3%
Pretty close and shows really that Google has a lot of work to do in its 'verticals'.
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Wow. *Blink*. Thank you so much for this.
It might interest you to know that we track alexa ratings for people in the photo space religiously and we find big discrepancies in that space between Alexa and Media Metrix. I'm not really sure what that says yet but its interesting.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Johnson of Ookles | May 19, 2006 1:18 AM
There's a very happy Kiwi in London here Richard...16-14...beautiful!!
Posted by: Paul Christian | May 19, 2006 2:25 AM
Nevertheless, an impressive set of "verticals".
I wouldn't mind a 0.10% share of Google.com
Posted by: John | May 19, 2006 3:06 AM
Paul - yeeeeees! Hurricanes won 16-14 and are in the final of the Super 14! :-))
[cough] But back to the web tech world, Scott yes I always sprinkle my web stats with a heavy dose of salt. John, too right it's potentially a great set of verticals. Once they get out of beta :-)
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 19, 2006 3:22 AM
I found thi spost interesting. I blogged on it on the theme of Google's diversification and ambidexterity. The other domains are hints (early peeks) at what they may be doing in the future. I hope someone may post the patterns of crossover visitors from one vertical to another.
As usual, I like reading your blog. Thanks
Posted by: N. Venkat Venkatraman | May 22, 2006 1:51 PM
You have to realise that Google *intends* for 70% of their market to be about "core search". They're operating on a principle they call their 70/20/10 rule. 80% is a bit higher than 70%, but I don't think they'd be paritcularly worried about their search getting the vast majority of attention, because that's where they're aiming anyway.
Posted by: Graham Lea | May 23, 2006 6:27 PM
Agreed Graham, but if you look at the way Internet companies are trying to be media companies nowadays - a strong verticals product range is essential. I talked about this more in a recent ZDNet post:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=188
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 23, 2006 6:34 PM