It wasn't necessarily that GOOG schooled them, comScore was reporting solely on GOOG's domestic business, which has been seeing headwinds. International wasn't nearly as bad and it helped put them over depressed expectations.
Nice article. Forget about AOL and Yahoo, all one needs to look at is the conversion of the word "Google" from a proper noun to a verb and the image transformation from "a nice option for search" to "the one stop to find out about anything I don't know."
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