Who are Google' s competitors (Core Business and General)

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Major Competitors

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

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 areas of Internet services, it is really difficult to say Yahoo has a core business.

Microsoft Corporation

Minor Competitors

Potential Competitors