Hammer Time: Will Web Videos Beat Google?

Written by Igor Beuker on October 16th, 2007 |

In the month August 2007, USA search engines like Google and Yahoo! handled a total of 9,8 billion search queries. So search still is the number 1 most used functionality at the world wide web.

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But, the tipping point is close! Soon US internet video’s will get more eyeballs than US search engines. Is that why Google bought YouTube? Is social media finally taking over search in 2007, measured in the number of eyeballs?

Yes Sir, SEA is still huge and growing, but Google stopping it’s Best Practice Funding (BPF) per 2009/01/01 could mean Mc Hammer Time for many search engine media agencies.

In the month July 2007, 9,1 billion internet video’s were watched in the USA. In June this was 8,4 billion and May 7 billion. If this meta trend continues, there will be more internet video’s watched in the US than there will be search queries.

Tell us: will online video beat search soon?


(Sources: Dutch Zoomz and Comscore).










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