Nasdaq December 23, 2021
Launched in February 2005, Google Maps is now used by more than 1 billion people every month. There isn’t another mapping service that even comes close to Google Maps’ dominance.
So how did it get there?
Saying that Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), Google’s parent company, has some control of the internet would be a massive understatement. The company has been the leading search engine for almost two decades, making up 90% of all internet searches. Google literally decides where to direct internet users every time they look for something (a scary thing if you think about it).
Second to Google is Bing, with just 6% of search traffic. Google basically doesn’t have any competitors when it comes to search.
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