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Google Growth Rates

Google in the first half of 2007 Google controled a 39.8 percent market share of all online advertising in the U.S. And that compares to a 34.6 percent share in the first half of 2006, based on IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) data for that period. Following is the math: $3.98 billion (Google’s U.S. revenues in the first half of 2007)/$9.99 billion (IAB’s estimate of total U.S. online ad revenue in 1H07) = 39.8 percent. This shows that Google is outpacing the growth of online advertising by a wide margin. Total online advertising revenues grew 26.5 percent year-over-year, while Google’s ad revenues grew 45.7 percent.