Which Yahoo! properties could potentially be bringing this amount of traffic?
Yahoo Mail, Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News. It still doesn't smell right, though.
Yahoo tops Google in US traffic
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#112This "news" is meaningless. Quality, not quantity is the name of the game.
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P.S. Your (Google, again) elimination of the + operator in your search queries was, again anecdotally, another factor in the declining performance of your searches for me. +1 to that. At the least Google should have added a ++ operator to replace the co-opted +.
"Quote" the search term. That's the replacement for +.
No, the replacement is Search Tools --> Verbatim
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Very true, glad I'm not the only one to have noticed this. And I've got a suggestion for a search engine so intelligent - well relatively - it took google back to school and enrolled it in kindergarten. I find myself using it whenever Google gets stumped; it consistently gives better results in the sense that I feel it has a better understanding of my query. Take this example that prompted my above semi-hyperbole. Ba…
Never heard of samuru so I tried to google: samuru search engine The "samuru.com" did not come up on first five pages. Then it starts suggesting samurai. Contrary, searching duck duck go search engine has the https://duckduckgo.com/ as the first result.
Did you try http://www.google.com/search?q=samuru ?
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Never heard of samuru so I tried to google: samuru search engine The "samuru.com" did not come up on first five pages. Then it starts suggesting samurai. Contrary, searching duck duck go search engine has the https://duckduckgo.com/ as the first result.
Did you try http://www.google.com/search?q=samuru ?
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#116Fantasy Football begins. Seriously, that's all I use yahoo for but I use it a hell of a lot during football season.
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#117I "Google" less and less for search results, as they become increasingly crap. They are mostly best for "big name" items; also, the prominence of StackOverflow means that some computer technology queries still work pretty well. These days, I'm fortunate when I know specifically enough what I want that I can jump straight into Wikipedia and hopefully find an adequate page. Whatever you are and aren't doing about it, G…
I also pretty much use Google's search as a proxy for Wikipedia search or StackOverflow search at this point. But I highly doubt much Yahoo's traffic is coming from search. They've got Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, omg! (which is huge), Flickr, Tumblr, etc. Yahoo is in the content business. Plus, I know of some people (especially older people) who have Yahoo set as their homepage, and they'll freak out if it gets set to…
Oh shit, you bring up a good point. Nobody else seemed to mention it, but I bet Tumblr is helping push them over the edge in terms of traffic.
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A conspiracy theorist looking at Google's ad clicks numbers might say that better results equal less clicks on ads. Mind you, that on commercial searches essentially all you see is ads. This works up to a point, a tipping point that is. I think Google is unusable now for commercial searches, all you see is ads and eBay, Amazon and other megacorps. Up to a few years ago, I would have never believed that Google crafted…
Sometime ago I had an idea of making a non-commercial search engine that would only search the non-commercial web. All pages that accept payments or show ads would be out.
That would be fantastically interesting to see/use. My only concern is, well, how would you fund it?
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Sometime ago I had an idea of making a non-commercial search engine that would only search the non-commercial web. All pages that accept payments or show ads would be out.
That would be fantastically interesting to see/use. My only concern is, well, how would you fund it?
Yeah, that's a hard question. But maybe we can mitigate the need for funding by being open source, P2P, or getting donations.
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#120Traffic is a vanity metric.