Google Docs rockets to 1 percent market share in only three years

Paul Boutin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:20:00 EST

It's been more than three years since the debut of Writely, the free, browser-based alternative to Microsoft Word quickly snapped up by Google. Nearly two years since the formal release of Google Docs & Spreadsheets, now known as just Google Docs. Let's admit it: Google Docs is no YouTube, Gmail or Google Maps. A survey of 2,400 American Internet users by Clickstream found that half of them use Microsoft Word, but only one in a hundred uses the free, instant-access Google Docs. Obama's going to change all this, right?

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Google Docs rockets to 1 percent market share in only three years