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One of the items in the news recently has been the Microsoft and Yahoo! merger that so far isn't.

Meanwhile Google continues to grow and Grow and GROW and GROW and GROW...

If you are building a website, you pretty much can ignore all other search engines, because so many of them outsource their search to Google.

Meanwhile Google's dominance overall has reached another benchmark as mentioned in this story from Mediapost:

Google's Dominance: Industry Menace Or Catalyst For Change?
Information Week
The latest Hitwise data shows that Google's search market share is at an all-time high. Of course, that means that market share for Yahoo and MSN hit new lows -- which, as Thomas Claburn notes, is precisely why some in the industry remain concerned about the search giant's dominance.

Still, Claburn argues that while Google's chokehold on search is formidable, on some levels, it's beneficial for the entire Internet marketing and computing industries. "Google is alarming in the same way that Wal-Mart is alarming: It forces competitors to change," Claburn says.

He says that there's still room for companies like Microsoft, as well as small startups, to challenge Google on a number of fronts. "Microsoft will be a better [competitor], five years from now, when Ray Ozzie's vision for the company becomes more fully realized," Claburn says. "Yahoo may be one, if corporate raiders don't dismember it first. And maybe MySpace or Facebook will make their platform plays work. (Don't count Apple out, either.)" - Read the whole story...

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