YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine

Dekortage writes "According to the latest ComScore rankings, YouTube's search traffic for August surpassed Yahoo's. The latter dropped roughly 5% in traffic from July. Among other things, this means that Google now owns both of the top two search engines. AdAge further speculates on Google's experimental 'promoted videos' cost-per-click advertising on YouTube, suggesting the obvious: more money."

Comments

"Search engine"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Calling YouTube a "search engine" by comparison to Google and Yahoo is...interesting. I mean, I guess it's technically true, but it's about as relevant as comparing Google with Slashdot site search.

Re:"Search engine"?

[corsec67]

Would "grep" be considered a search engine, then?

I use it to find stuff at work all the time.

Re:"Search engine"?

[Rary]

youtube is just a website with a search facility.

Google is also a website with a search facility.

YouTube is a website with the ability to search its content. Google is a website with the ability to search other sites' content.

Basically, Google is a search engine, and YouTube has a search engine.

YouTube is not a search engine

[alex_vegas]

People who search on yahoo are not looking to stay at yahoo. People who search at youtube are looking to stay at youtube. This story is bogus.

Re:YouTube is not a search engine

[Facegarden]

The story isn't bogus... If a general purpose search site that searches the whole web, and used to be number one, now gets fewer searches than a single-purpose video search site, it really underscores how low yahoo has fallen!
-Taylor