Google Vs. Facebook: A Map Of Global Conquest

The institute, using data from the Web analytics site Alexa, crunched the numbers and came up with this: In North America and Europe, parts of South America, South Asia and Southeast Asia, Google is tops. Search engines in China and Russia predominate in those countries. "The power of Google on the Internet becomes starkly evident if we also look at the second most visited website in every country. Among the 50 countries that have Facebook listed as the most visited website, 36 of them have Google as the second most visited, and the remaining 14 countries list YouTube." "China is a particularly interesting case: The Chinese search engine Baidu is the most visited website in the country, but its success may be engineered in part by the government. As the speculation goes - and some evidence suggests - Chinese officials have colluded with local business interests to limit Google's share of the market in favor of Baidu and other companies. Today, Baidu controls around 80 percent of the Chinese search market and, according to Alexa data that the Oxford researchers question, recently became the market leader in South Korea as well."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/04/229278232/google-vs-facebook-a-map-of-global-conquest?ft=1&f=1019