According to the data provider HitWise Google’s share of U.S. Internet searches rose 1.4% in November to 71.6%,
Yahoo’s U.S. search share fell 4.6% to 15.4%.
Bing’s search share also slipped 2.4% to 9.3%,
Ask.com edged up to 2.7%.
Hitwise, said Google’s percentage of traffic grew for the automotive, shopping and travel categories.
Bing, saw double-digit growth among those three categories and health.
Yahoo reported declines in all four categories, with the biggest drop, 20%, in health.
And very recently Yahoo seems to have developed a site submission problem. A log-in is required to submit a site, but after doing so I get caught in a never-ending loop. The goal is to GAIN market share, not lose it!
A Yahoo fan anyway.
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it seems we will SOON have a Skynet-like GoogleNet… 🙁
http://www.ghostnasa.com/googlenet.jpg
that, sooner or later, could become the internet’s “GIA”… 🙁
http://www.ghostnasa.com/gia.jpg
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It’s just a matter of time now. Yahoo is dead.
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Yahoo isn’t dead now, but Bing is falling despite the giant MS investment on it
unfortunately, Google is too hard to beat and MS and Yahoo have no new ideas
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“MS and Yahoo have no new ideas”
Isn’t that the major problem with them?
When was the last time Yahoo introduced something people wanted and Google didn’t already have?
I hate using Google because I know they are the antichrist.
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Maybe Yahoo and AOL should merge 🙂
Geesh.
A former Yahoo fan too.
They haven’t done anything right since they bought Flickr like five years ago.
They just lost without direction… dead in the water.
buying OMG.com was a good move.
Yahoo should have bought youtube at any price…the next two to watch are twitter and facebook. If one company buys both its game over. If they split I think facebook is the better catch. Twitter would be easier to copy.
I think too it is often a mistake when a major website with a large user base decide that a new site design/layout is somehow a needed improvement. Yahoo have been going through site redesigns and this forces the user to spend considerable time relearning the site, its functions, etc. Or, in some cases, this unwanted change facilitates a permanent exodus.
I used Yahoo advertising once and they screwed up. I used Microsoft advertising once and they goofed. I used Google and it worked as advertised! Guess who has gotten all of my business.
Many companies take for granted that once they have a customer, the customer won’t leave. Wrong! Advertising gets the customer there, once. Customer service and a quality product KEEP the customer there.
“Don’t be evil?”
Nah.
“All your Internet (and data) are belong to us.”
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more seriously, the Google monopoly in every field of the web business will damage also the websites and domains business, since they are both related to number of products, software and services on the market
just one example to explain my point
the Linux-derived Chrome OS (soon merged with Android) could kill nearly ALL Linux related websites and domains
so, we will see the death of hundreds Linux distro and their websites, but, also, of every website or domain that talk about them: forums, blogs, software, etc.
the same will happen when Yahoo and Bing will die (or will be sold to Google) due to low market share and lots of debts
or when the only cellular OS will be Android (and, later, the cellular version of Chrome OS) etc.
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