Google Overtakes Yahoo in Web Traffic
Posted by Bezhou Feng on 17 May 2008 - 14:28 · 9 comments & 4321 views
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#1 Posted by Julius Caro on 17 May 2008 - 23:36
- About time!
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#2 Posted by Ned on 18 May 2008 - 04:38
- Wait, this just happened?
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#2.1 Posted by Smigit on 18 May 2008 - 05:41
- Yep. Yahoo may be 2nd in search and has been for a while but other services such as yahoo mail are still wildly popular.
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#2.2 Posted by ]SK[ on 18 May 2008 - 08:27
- I agree, I would have thought this would be old news. I always liked Yahoo! but Google is just... better.
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#2.3 Posted by Vandalsquad on 18 May 2008 - 12:13
- SK[ said,#2.2]I agree, I would have thought this would be old news. I always liked Yahoo! but Google is just... better.
The only thing google does well is search, yahoo does a range of things that do well. -
#2.4 Posted by LTD on 18 May 2008 - 19:45
- (Vandalsquad said @ #2.3)SK[ said,#2.2]I agree, I would have thought this would be old news. I always liked Yahoo! but Google is just... better.
The only thing google does well is search, yahoo does a range of things that do well.
Gmail is actually pretty damn good. Bu then again, I have it routed to Mail on OS X, so i don't use the Gmail interface much. Some of my family do, however, and they seem to like it quite a bit. -
#2.5 Posted by toadeater on 18 May 2008 - 22:14
- Yahoo's only problems are from corporate raiders like Carl Icahn who want to cash in, take the $$$ and run. Icahn isn't interested in Yahoo's long-term success, he's interested in the $$$.
Every time one of these articles comes out about Yahoo's problems, you ought to take a look at Microsoft's online problems. Live and MSN are both miserable failures. If it wasn't for MS's other cash cows, they would have been shut down already. They are bleeding $$$. While Yahoo is either beating or close behind Google, Live is a distant third, more on par with AOHELL.
Yahoo's biggest problem is that some of its services are slow and clunky. But the Yahoo home page has gotten a major AJAX-y facelift lately and is almost as good as using something like Netvibes. I don't know why people would prefer Google over that, probably because its trendy right now? I still have my half dozen Yahoo accounts and have no intention of going to Google or Live so they can spy on my illegal activities.
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#3 Posted by MountainSnake on 18 May 2008 - 17:56
- Yahoo counts all domains worldwide as a whole. Google differentiates com, fr, co.uk, de, pt, etc... worldwide speaking Google SMASHES Yahoo if we count all domains together.
