Google launched a statistic centre called “Google Internet Stat”, which brings together industrial facts and insights provided by many third-party recourses across various industries around the world.
This new statistic centre can analyse data online and provide results with “Twitter-sized snippets and factoids”.
Internet Stat covers five major areas including macro economic trends, technologies, consumer trends, media consumption, and media landscape. There are also some sub-categories under each major area.
Earlier, I tried to search “Facebook” on Internet Stat, and the result is like this: 5% of all time online is spent on Facebook. Comscore is credited as the source, but if we click the link, we will be directed to a news article on Guardian UK.
I think such search tool like Internet Stat is very convenient for researchers and students— I get the short versions of facts quickly and I can also trace back to the sources. However, Google Internet Stat does allow users to submit contents. Now the sources Google credits on the Internet Stat’s homepage look reliable. But how Google can ensure the liability of the sources in future? Will it become something like Wikipedia— useful but not trust-worthy?
Moreover, I’m not sure whether the sources are offering the stats free of charge to Google. Well, it definitely can be a good opportunity to gain more traffic because people will want to trace back to the sources. But to what extent will they want to offer free stats? And how Google can generate profits through this?
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