Yahoo Tops Portal Market In Visitors

linumax writes "Yahoo Inc. continues to lead the portal market in the number of unique visitors, and is also the top destination for news, a market research firm says. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company led the top 10 Web sites among U.S. home and work Internet users with 101.3 million visitors in August, EMarketer Inc., said. Second was Microsoft Corp.'s site with 95.6 million, followed by its MSN portal, 92.1 million; Google, 80.4 million; America Online Inc., 75.7 million; EBay Inc., 55.2 million; MapQuest, 39 million; Amazon.com, 37.6 million, RealNetworks, 36.4 million; and the Weather Channel, 31.2 million."

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Impressive showing for Google

[gasmonso]

Considering that Google doesn't offer anywhere close to the amount of crap that Yahoo and MSN do I think Google is doing far better. Yahoo, MSN, AOL, all offer a million different services and Google's primary function is searching. The maintenence costs for those sites must be through the roof, whereas Google can spend the $$$ on research and innovation.

gasmonso http://religiousfreaks.com/

We're all sheep

[fleener]

Hey, all I know is that the majority of the hits to my blog come from Yahoo and MSN. My page titles are crystal clear about what you'll be seeing before you arrive, so I'm not too worried about a lack of "quality" in my site traffic. My hits from Google are from people who search 2 to 5 pages deep in search results before finding me. Much of the time, Google ranks other blogs linking to my post higher than my posts, even for searches which involve my web site's name. So I humbly suggest that Yahoo and MSN aren't popular merely because people are sheep, but because those sheep have found contentment in being fed.

Let the stock market decide...

[Chaffar]

If Yahoo is so much better than Google, than why does GOOG have more than double the market capitalization of YHOO ? Because the stock market is run by people who vote with their money, and therefore by people who try to make the most informed decisions they can. Those who know, know a good product when they see one (OR. they just bought into the hype and invested in Google like crazy, them and the rest of the world. But it paid off. didn't it :)).

Variety is the spice of life, and I think there's a market for both the "all-in-one" Yahoo-type solution just as much as the "function before form" Google method. Your personal preference shouldn't affect your judgement towards the other. I personally use both: Yahoo when I'm bored and Google when I need to get a job done fast.

AOL really number one?

[sloths]

AOL owns MapQuest, and 80.4 million + 55.2 million=135.6 million. Sure you can argue that Google+Blogger or Yahoo!+Flickr, but if AOL changed the MapQuest URL to something like MapQuest.AOL.com, then would AOL be first?

Click here if you use MapQuest
Click here if you use AOL

Re:Does Yahoo filter spam from rankings better?

[Anonymous Coward]

Try searching for a review of a commerical product like a TV by model number. Google will fill the search with places selling the product, not with reviews. If Eopinions or Amazon does not have a review, you're screwed. You'll be buying blind.

I can't believe you are serious. Do you work for Yahoo? Because that is the only way to explain the nonsense you wrote.

You want to find a review on a specific model of TV? Okay.
Let's just say it is the Sony KDL-V40XBR1.

So you go to a search engine. (It doesn't matter which one...)

Okay genius, what keywords do you enter? If I wanted to find reviews on the Sony KDL-V40XBR1, I personally would type in "sony KDL-V40XBR1 reviews".

If I were a moron, I would just type in "sony KDL-V40XBR1" and then wade through pages of useless (to me in this particular situation) results from websites trying to SELL me a Sony KDL-V40XBR1.

Jesus....

You want a specific type of search result? Then all you have to so is include another more specific search term, or two. :)