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Yahoo Tops Portal Market In Visitors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-more-than-us dept.

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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  1. Raw numbers don't matter by ThatGeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd argue that raw numbers don't matter with respect to Yahoo. I mean sure, they're paying a whole lot in bandwidth and all, but their site is so cluttered that I never have any idea what I'm looking at. There could be ads for free hundred dollar bills and I wouldn't even notice.

    I can't tell you how many times I've gone to yahoo to find their directory of sites and given up and gone to DMOZ instead.

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    What are you eating? isItVeg?.
  2. Does Yahoo filter spam from rankings better? by ATeamMrT · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I seem to always go to yahoo.com when ever I search for something and rarely use any other search engine like google. I have no idea though because personally I don't care what search engine Im using but I do usually default to yahoo first

    I've been a Google user for years, but I am starting to use Yahoo more often. At first it started because I was at Yahoo for a different reason, and the search was there, so I did it. Boom, less spam results. I went to Google to compare and there is more spam in the rankings.

    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.

    Google to me was most usefull as a NON-COMMERCIAL tool, to find information, not sellers. There are plenty of places to buy, and I know their websites. I don't need google to show me electronic stores.

  3. More market research.. by deep44 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..and in yesterday's news, new study finds that 'Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy', which confirms something I've known for quite some time now:

    We're outnumbered.