Yahoo gets kicked to curb by Google, Bing

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Google, Bing duke it out, leave Yahoo in dust - Dec. 17, 2009

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Once the world's online search leader, Yahoo's share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google.

Yahoo's search market share in November fell to 17.5% from 18% in October, according to a monthly comScore report released late Wednesday. It's the lowest share ever recorded for Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500).
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This makes me wonder if Yahoo's share is being eaten by Google or Bing. I really think Bing will start pulling users from Yahoo before they start pulling them from Google.
 
The numbers seemed to bear that out, with Yahoo losing 1.8 and Bing picking up 1.4.
 
Well, let's look at who uses Yahoo.
I've read in numerous places that the average Yahoo user substantially less tech savvy, user has less education in general, and are resistant to changing habits. Lower credit score too.
It's the same shit that makes them such good marketing fodder.

Now, whilst people will remain ill educated marketing fodder, they are getting more tech savvy, and less likely to remain habitually (unless you count serial compulsive activity as a habit) bound to a single service.

IMO, Yahoo needs to figure out what their remaining strong suites are, if any, and develop the hell out of them, and surge ahead in that one area... Or develop an entirely new method of organising searchable data.
 
Yahoo search sucks. I haven't used Yahoo since the 90's...even then Altavista was better. On another note, Yahoo does provide other services that are better than Bing and Google. For instance, I don't know how I would live without Yahoo News.
 
Google search > Yahoo search
Google mail > Yahoo mail
Google news > Yahoo news
Yahoo chess > Google chess

Google > Yahoo
 
tainted said:
Google search > Yahoo search
Google mail > Yahoo mail
Google news > Yahoo news
Yahoo chess > Google chess

Google > Yahoo
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Yahoo Sports > Google ???
Yahoo Fantasy Sports > Google ???

Of course, ESPN's Fantasy System is pretty slick if you're playing in a persistent franchise league with auction drafts. They didn't make many improvements since last year, but with a few tweaks, ESPN will probably pass Yahoo for Fantasy Sports. Charging a subscription fee for live stats is so 2007.
 
I'm just glad of this, I've always thought Yahoo search was terrible. My browser automatically uses Bing and I haven't had any problems with it yet. I agree with MetaFever about "Yahoo users wont adjust to the simplicity of Google", however.
 
Jashy said:
My browser automatically uses Bing and I haven't had any problems with it yet. I agree with MetaFever about "Yahoo users wont adjust to the simplicity of Google", however.
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Lol, what an irony... for those who understands that of course.
 
Well this fucking sucks. I finally got one of my sites to rank on the first page of Yahoo and now their market share is dropping? Damnit.
 
Google search > Yahoo search
Google mail > Yahoo mail
Google news > Yahoo news
Yahoo chess > Google chess
 
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