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Google's major competitors are Yahoo! Inc and Microsfot Corporation.
Google's major competitors are Yahoo! Inc and Microsfot Corporation.
===Yahoo! Inc.===
===Yahoo! Inc.===
====Introduction to Yahoo!====
====Introduction to Yahoo! Inc.====
(from Wikipedia)
(from Wikipedia)



Revision as of 21:31, 18 March 2006

Major Competitors

Google's major competitors are Yahoo! Inc and Microsfot Corporation.

Yahoo! Inc.

Introduction to Yahoo! Inc.

(from Wikipedia)

Yahoo! Inc. NASDAQ: YHOO is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

According to Alexa Internet and Netcraft, both of which are Web trends companies, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.

Yahoo!'s core business

Being the most visited web portal in the world. Yahoo! Inc. not only provides a search engine, but also involves in other services like news, sports and weather, furthermore, Yahoo! offers e-mail, instant messaging, travel, auctions, classified ads, discussion groups, Web hosting etc.

Since Yahoo! has already expanded its branches into almost every area of Internet services, it is really difficult to say Yahoo has a so called "core business".

Microsoft Corporation

Introduction to Microsoft Corporation

(Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, its Windows operating systems are the de facto standards on the desktop and major contenders in the server arena. Microsoft Office is the most successful application suite in history. The company also has a thriving business in programming languages, which are its roots, as well as in numerous other software categories.

Microsoft's core business

Although Microsoft also involves in different fields like online search engine market(www.msn.com), instant messaging(MSN messenger), gaming industry(X-Box) and TV network(MSNBC) etc, its core business is still focused on software manufacture. Its dominance of operating system and office software contributes most to its huge profit.

Minor Competitors

Potential Competitors