| WebFountain v. Google | |||||
| IBM WebFountain | |||||
| Core product | Corporate analytics | Search engine | |||
| Users | Thousands | Millions | |||
| Market face | Middleware platform | End user application | |||
| No. Customers* | Thousands | Hundred thousands | |||
| Avg. $/Customer** | $500,000 | $5,000 | |||
| Revenue source | Enterprise IT budgets | Advertising/media | |||
| Market Size, 2005** | $5 billion | $5 billion | |||
| Users | High end knowledge workers | Anyone on the web | |||
| Query language | Very complex | Very simple | |||
| Queries served/day | 1,000 | 250 million | |||
| Query Results | Tailored to each client | Same for everyone | |||
| Index | 2 billion, very selective | Crawls 4.5 billion, less selective | |||
| Computing Power | 256 nodes, 2 2.6-gh xeon/ea | 100,000 linux boxes | |||
| Megawatts | 1 | 10 | |||
| * Potential | |||||
| **Estimate | |||||