Google Calendar went online last month, Google Finance debuted in March and the company introduced Google Talk IM last year.

But according to a Hitwise analysis, the three applications each account for less than one half of 1% of the traffic to the Google network of Web sites, says StreetWise.

"Not surprisingly, even with all the new Google products out there, Hitwise found the most popular feature on Google is still search," the story states. "It accounts for 80% of the company's traffic. Google has become synonymous with Internet search, mostly through word of mouth, also known as viral marketing."

But viewed from another perspective, "Yahoo News (6.90%) is beating the fundamentally-flawed Google News (1.9%), says the Guardian Unlimited.

"Google (47.40%) dominates search, and this is no surprise," says the story. "Yahoo (16%) is getting hammered, even though Yahoo's search is as good as or better than Google's. MSN Search (11.50%) is doing even worse.

"But in most other listed categories, Yahoo is winning, and Yahoo Mail (42.4%) is thrashing Hotmail (22.90%)."

It's amusing, but not surprising, adds the story, "to see the reality of the blogosphere's assumption that 'everybody' uses Gmail (2.54%). The blogosphere's 'everybody' ignores 97% of the US population as standard. ;-)"

Also See:
StreetWise - Hit-and-Miss at Google , May 22, 2006
Guardian Unlimited - Yahoo is winning in the portal wars, May 20, 2006

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