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Everybody knows Google. In almost every country in the world Google is known for being one of the biggest search engine providers, if not the biggest. For most companies this would be an extraordinary accomplishment, but not for Google. Google is now in the process of expanding their dominance to include mobile searching.

Currently Google is going head to head with Apple for the internet searches done through phone web access, and Google recently purchased AdMob and Teracent in an attempt break into the mobile search arena. Spending almost $750 Million on AdMob alone they are attempting to increase this form of advertising for their company.

Apple is also fighting hard to gain this market with their acquisition of Quattro; they will attempt to make headway in the mobile marketing arena as well. The question is really, “how much ground can Apple gain from Google, who already has about 70% of the search traffic on the web?”

Google continues to be the target, however, and the major players in this industry are targeting them, but trying to unify against them. Apple is in the process of trying to strike a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the primary search resource in the iPhone, hoping that this unification will supply both companies with a larger foothold in the market. Is it realistic to believe that the unification of these two smaller players, could in fact take anything from Google? The answer is probably not.

The focus for Google is now increasing their position in the mobile search engine market, however this will not come at the expense of their PC search engine. Google is the dominant search engine on the internet, and while it would be an accomplishment if they were to achieve their mobile goals, the reality is that if they fail to meet these goals it would not have much of an impact on their standing as it compares to the other search engines. While their competition continues to figure out how to solve the problem of Google, Google continues to be the most used search engine on the web.