look at where people are going and staying during this global virus outbreak though according to reuters google released reports for 131 countries with charts that compared. traffic from february 16th to march 29th to retail recreational venues train and bus stations grocery stores and workplaces with a 5 week period earlier in the year now based on that data here is what is happening in the us 4747 percent decrease in retail and recreation travel 22 percent decrease in grocery and pharmacy visits 19 percent decrease in visits to parks 51 percent decrease in football to transit stations and a 38 percent decrease in going to work places as well as a 12 percent increase increase to residential locations now these seem like big drops but other western countries experience even bigger drop suggesting the u.s. isn't yet enforcing lockdowns as strictly as europe is now joining us now to discuss and take a look at google's data is boom bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan ben thank you so much for joining me today from this google data we can see that in general here in the united states the

reuters report citing a government memo saying that zoom is responding to their concerns. rivals, though, are not going to wait already we are seeing microsoft's skype as well as google's duoideo conferencing surveillances mimic and encroach on some of zoom's success. take a look at the shares of zoom of course still one of the biggest winners this year, up nearly 70% year to date, but last week, down 20%, today, another 7.5% >> what was the reason zoom had such ferocious growth over the prior couple years relative to the other names you threw out there? and does that difference still apply now? >> that's great question, wilf let me ask you, have you ever used google hangouts, skype, some of these other services put simply, zoom just a lot easier to use. there aren't a lot of those barriers you see with other services there's no password. that wasn't a default until recently when you get into a zoom room. that has been part of the problem and now it's going back on some of those measures like asking for a password, putting you in a waiting room before you get in, and that's giving a chance for its rivals to copy some of the things like that now perhaps we'll see if it leav