Google takes UK’s top brand spot from the BBC reports Google took the BBC’s top spot in a Superbrands survey of the top brand in the UK. In fact, Google is the only company established after 1990 that is found within the top 50 brands in this survey.

Microsoft secured the second position of this survey. Yahoo was found in position 102 and Ask.com was found in position 379. You can see the full top 500 list as a PDF document over here. The top ten were:

1: Google 2: Microsoft 3: BP 4: BBC 5: GlaxoSmithKline 6: Rolls-Royce group 7: Financial Times 8: BA 9: Fedex Express 10: Hertz

The survey was of senior business leaders and an independent survey of 1,500 professionals.

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