Comments on: Google’s share of ad spending: 2.66 percent

By: aion kinah

aion kinah — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:42:33 +0000

The chart above shows how small Internet advertising still is. Google’s AdWords and AdSense programs have grown the market for online ads, rather than just capturing a portion of the pre-existing pie.

By: darkfall gold

darkfall gold — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:31:42 +0000

By: UltraSnow

UltraSnow — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:54:05 +0000

Wow, this incredible. Thanks Google for its wonderful search engine

By: Nicholas Lovell

Nicholas Lovell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:25:33 +0000

People trying to defend monopolies always try to slice the pie in a way that makes look like the monopolist is in fact facing lots of competition. It never works, because it's not true.

Your argument that Google has only 2.66% of the overall market, which is very big, just doesn't work. If it did, regulator and consumers would need to be happy with one TV network owning 25% of the total ad revenue, one radio station owning another 25%, one newspaper owning the third and Google owning the rest.

I am a great fan of Google, but it's 30% market share of online advertising threatens innovation and stifles growth. No AdSense user can complain because Google can *arbitrarily* turn off their access to AdSense, which would be very damaging to a small or medium size web business.

To suggest that Google should be regulated with respect to its share of total advertising is, I'm afraid, arrant nonsense.

By: Lame Argument

Lame Argument — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:09:14 +0000

When was it that gov'ts started putting a revenue mark on companies before they could be targeted for being considered a monopoly?

They have been using that small percent of all ad-spend argument for a few years now.., its not gonna fly.

Its like MS saying they should not be considered a monopoly b/c oracle and IBM have huge revenue a sell a lof of software.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:20:21 +0000

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