When it comes to spending time on Google properties, Indians & Brazilians seem to do it the most. According to Comscore, Netizens of both these countries spent nearly double the time on Google than Global average.
29.8 percent of total time spent online in Brazil was spent on Google Sites, with India only slightly lower at 28.9 percent. The next highest global market was Ireland at 15.9 percent.
| Top Ten Global Internet Markets by Google Sites’ Share of Time Spent July 2009 Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore | |||
| Total Minutes (MM) | |||
| Total Internet | Google Sites | Google Sites’ Share of Total Minutes Spent Online | |
| Worldwide | 1,541,617 | 145,473 | 9.4% |
| Brazil | 46,352 | 13,808 | 29.8% |
| India | 21,799 | 6,294 | 28.9% |
| Ireland | 1,717 | 273 | 15.9% |
| Singapore | 3,326 | 475 | 14.3% |
| Portugal | 4,430 | 590 | 13.3% |
| South Africa | 2,764 | 358 | 12.9% |
| Mexico | 23,035 | 2,950 | 12.8% |
| Italy | 21,776 | 2,699 | 12.4% |
| Austria | 3,435 | 417 | 12.1% |
| Denmark | 3,458 | 417 | 12.1% |
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I think there are couple of reasons why India & Brazil are high on the time spent list – Orkut, which is a Google property is quite popular among Indian’s and Brazilians. Being a Social networking site, the time spent on this site is much higher. Orkut has not got much traction other than in these 2 countries.
The chart below proves that as well.
| Google-Owned Sites Across Selected Site Categories in Brazil and India July 2009 Total Brazil and India, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix and comScore qSearch | |||
| Site Category | Google Site | Category Rank by Unique Visitors | Google’s Share of Time Spent in Category |
| Brazil | |||
| Search* | Google Sites | 1 | 89.5% |
| Social Networking | Orkut | 1 | 96.0% |
| Maps | Google Maps | 1 | 70.9% |
| Photos | Picasa Network | 2 | 8.9% |
| Blogs | Blogger | 1 | 43.7% |
| Multimedia | YouTube | 1 | 91.6% |
| Gmail | 2 | 9.7% | |
| India | |||
| Search* | Google Sites | 1 | 88.4% |
| Social Networking | Orkut | 1 | 68.2% |
| Maps | Google Maps | 1 | 63.9% |
| Photos | Picasa Network | 1 | 16.2% |
| Blogs | Blogger | 1 | 47.6% |
| Multimedia | YouTube | 1 | 82.8% |
| Gmail | 2 | 46.8% | |
*Search category market share based on share of searches conducted, not share of time spent like the other categories
In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4 percent of all searches conducted, and had commanding share of time spent in social networking with Orkut (68.2 percent), maps with Google Maps (63.9 percent), multimedia with YouTube (82.8 percent). It also commanded slightly less than half of all time spent in the blogs category with Blogger (47.6 percent) and email with Gmail (46.8 percent).
There is also another reason why Google does well with Indians & Brazilians as Alex Banks of Comscore puts across:
Google’s prevalence in these markets can perhaps best be explained by the fact that the time at which these markets really began to develop and flourish was around the same time that Google was becoming a major player in the search landscape. As a result, Google became the dominant Internet brand in these markets and its success appears to have bled from search into other areas of the web like social networking.
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Author: Arun Prabhudesai
Arun Prabhudesai is founder / chief editor at trak.in. He jumped the Entrepreneurship bandwagon in early 2008 after a long 13 year stint in I.T Industry. You can follow him on twitter @trakin or get in touch with him at admin-at-trak-dot-in or 91.9822575676.Related posts:
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After reading the headline I thought probably this can be attributed to the slow internet speeds in India…later found that it is about Google sites and not just Good :-)