How Dependent On Google Are You?
Posted by Davy Brion on December 9th, 2009
I use GMail, and i really can’t imagine going without it anymore. I also use Google Reader, and while i know there are other online RSS readers, i can’t really think of a reason to even try something else because i don’t have any issues with Google Reader. Whenever i need to search for something, i google. I’ve tried Bing a couple of times but wasn’t impressed, so i’ll stick with Google’s search engine. I occasionally use Google Maps and Google Streetview. I use Google Adsense to display ads on my blog. I use Google Analytics to look at the traffic on my blog, and i use Google Feedburner to see how many people subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed.
I’m pretty dependent on Google as far as accessing information goes, but i’m also very dependent on Google bringing people to my site when i want to publish information:
The first graph shows that 96.64% of people who reach my blog through a search engine do so through Google. The second graph shows that slightly over 75% of my subscribers use Google Feedfetcher (which is used by Google Reader, iGoogle, etc…)
If Google ever starts hating me, i’m pretty much screwed 