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).
| Google-Owned Sites Across Selected Site Categories India July 2009 Total India, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix and comScore qSearch |
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| Site Category | Google Site | Category Rank by Unique Visitors | Google’s Share of Time Spent in Category |
| 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
ComScore released data recently on the two most powerful emerging markets, Brazil and India. As a backgrounder look at this data; Google Sites ranked as the most visited Internet property worldwide with 854 million unique visitors age 15 and older in July, an increase of 18-percent during the past year. Nearly 75 percent of all Internet users worldwide visited the Google Sites property, which accounted for 9.4 percent of all time spent online. Nearly one out of every ten minutes a person spends online around the world is spent on a Google site.