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YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine

Posted by timothy on from the your-safe-search-is-showing dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah, but... by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But how much of this is RIAA/MPAA-run robots searching for song/movie names?

  2. Re:"Search engine"? by PitaBred · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A lot of people search the videos for information, talks by Richard Dawkins, car reviews, whatever. I think it's perfectly valid to call Youtube a search engine, even though it's a very specialized one.

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  3. Re:Not Suprising..... by Futil3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A picture says more than a thousand words...