Yahoo tops Google in US traffic

Post by nfa_backward » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 4:25 AM UTC

necubi wrote: post #29

brymaster wrote: post #5

I don't doubt that Yahoo has a shit load of traffic still, but unless Alexa/Quantcast/ComScore/Compete/Nielsen or any of these other so-called 'web traffic measurement services' have direct access to Yahoo and Google's traffic data (they don't), I'd take these all with a grain of salt. These services have never been accurate. http://moz.com/blog/testing-accuracy-visitor-data-alexa-comp...

And Quantcast* disagrees pretty strongly: https://www.quantcast.com/google.com vs https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com . This is only traffic to yahoo.com and google.com, though, leaving out youtube, flickr, and various other domains, but it's likely that's what comscore is measuring on the google side. Given that Youtube's reach is nearly as high as Google.com's, that's probably not helping Yahoo. * Disclaimer, I wor…

Post by espeed » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 4:33 AM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #15

I "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…

Post by codex » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

espeed wrote: post #33

pasbesoin wrote: post #15

I "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…

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 +.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 5:01 AM UTC

Post by asperous » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 5:15 AM UTC

kulpreet wrote: post #20

I just finished a 10 week internship at Yahoo and while I can't say much about where the company is headed strategically, I can say that it's a super exciting time to be working there :)