| Quote: | z3r010 |  | |
| I've never been quite sure what to make of the deal, as somebody that publishes online ads I would welcome so competition to Google, but buying Yahoo who's search share is as near to nothing as makes no odds and their advertising delivery system which has been in beta (should be alpha) for the last few years is just crap just doesn't add up to me.
Just to give everybody an idea of how spent a force the yahoo search engine is and how much Google own the online search/advertising market, here are the search engine referral stats for the last 30 days for this site.
Google 1,117,302 visitors sent
Yahoo 12,544
Live 8,984
MSN 5,455
AOL 4,529
TBH even if M$ bought Yahoo and AOL, they still would not make any significant impact on the market. | |
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Dang z3r010, those are some big numbers. When I'm out in about in the world, people ask other people questions and the answer is quickly becoming, "google it".
Google even has a SMS (text) inquiry from your cell phone. Even if you are not "web enabled" you can get the top result from google by texting, without the quotes: "web yourquestionhere" to google (or 466453). You can even get the current weather conditions from google via text on your phone, without the quotes by texting "w' plus your city/state or US zipcode, for example "w 10101" sent to 466453 would send you back a text message with the current conditions for that zip code, plus a 72 hour forecast. The google web site has some more voodoo you can do via text message and interact with their search engine.
It's no wonder that google is the top place to do searches. I know when I have a question, I google it. I'll sometimes visit the other search engines, but they rarely have anything new that google hasn't already indexed.
Dang, should have bought google stock when it first came out. I could be retired by now
