Universal Search Benefits YouTube and Maps
Maps, Search, YouTube June 8th, 2007 - By Haochi
Bill Tancer of HitWise released a new set of data yesterday to compare the effects to Google’s properties after the announcement of Google Universal Search.
As you can see, Google Maps and YouTube received 20.34% and 8.26% of traffic increase, respectively. Probably at the cost of Google News, Image Search and Book Search.
Win-win doesn’t always happen, sometimes win-lose isn’t that bad after all.
[image from the HitWise Blog]
June 8th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Do you think the increase in Google Maps traffic could have been from the introduction of Street View, rather than the Universal Search?
June 8th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
It possibly contributed some percentage, but considering that the Street Feature released on May 25, I don’t really see how much it will effect the report, which ended on June 2.
I could be wrong though.