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Microsoft and Yahoo! joined the forces to create a stronger stand to compete against their common contender Google . They announced the ad-search deal that has the entire world go talking about it, from industry experts to investors, from advertisers to users. But the big question remains that would they be able to gain over the King who rules the virtual space. According to the recent data by the industry analyst comScore, Google holds a total share of 65% of the global market, Yahoo! 16.3% and Bing a mere 9.9%. Microsoft has long being trying to win over Yahoo! and Google in the search market with investing millions to bring an innovative system that would create a distinct picture, but, never managed to do so. Post the deal the situation changes drastically, Bing would simply jump to the second position with adding Yahoo!’s users to its share. Though, even combined share for Bing, post the deal, accounts to be less than that of Google, just 26% which is a big gap for the two g...

Google Fun Facts Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google: Google's name is a play on the word googol , which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old). Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second. Google receives daily search requests f...