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Ask HN: How much bigger is Google than other co's Twitter, snapchat, Facebook?
3 points by meeper16 on Jan 7, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Google is 80% of the world's search engine. Android runs on 70% of phones. YouTube is the most used video site on the internet. Google Maps is the most widely used Navigation tools ever. Google Play is the #1 destination to buy books and films. Yep. Google is powerful.


That last one surprises me - I'd have thought Amazon with Kindle and Apple with iBooks (on iPad in particular) would outsell Google on books. I'd probably have guessed iTunes top for films too but that's less surprising. Do you have a source for it just out of interest?


Yeah I find it hard to believe that Amazon isn't #1.


You are comparing apples and oranges my friend. They all target specific user experiences and vastly different services. If I were to guess, Google would be vastly larger then the rest following by snapchat/facebook tied and twitter lagging behind with 300 million plus active daily users.


Google is much more sprawling, diverse, Microsoftian than those other companies, which are all essentially focused on one core product.


FB have Facebook, messenger,whatsapp, instagram, ocutulus rift and others like parse.com. I agree Google is more sprawling but only for now




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