There’s no disputing who the king of search is from a shear volume standpoint. Google stands heads and shoulders above everyone else, and by a long ways. To illustrate the difference, or the dominant position that Google has in the search market, check out this graph from Alexa.com: But there’s one area where Google is […]
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It never ceases to amaze me at goes viral on the web. I mean, when a star like Olivia Wilde doesn’t wear makeup, the news elevates to the front page of Yahoo.com. You’d think that the people of this world would find other snippets of news more engaging, but nope… Olivia Wilde shows up somewhere […]
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Why Has Search Growth Stalled?
Taking a look at a Business Insider chart today I noticed something strange about the overall search market. There’s the obvious, that Google dominates the search landscape. But there’s another interesting take a way by looking at the chart below, and that is, why in the world has search growth seemed to stall? And I […]
Despite the bad rep of the late 90’s and the Internet bubble crash, there are still Internet companies that are thriving on the web. None more impressive than the social networking giant Facebook. A new study by the New York securities firm NYPPEX is putting Facebook at the value of $41.2 billion. The value the […]
Yahoo shares started to tumble yesterday amidst rumors that the tech company would be making significant layoffs starting in December. Some initial rumors were that Yahoo would be laying off 20% of its staff. However, that number was rebutted with a correction to around 10%. Regardless of the where the exact number comes in at, Yahoo […]
Yahoo homepage and Yahoo.com mail servers went down later today for approximately 40 minutes due to “server hangups” Perhaps it was because Yahoo is now the second most visited website for videos, or maybe because of some new Facebook integration – whatever it may be, Yahoo’s homepage and the Yahoo.com mail servers all went down […]
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Yahoo Overtakes Facebook As #2 Video Site
Depending on what month you check will depend on who holds the #2 and #3 video sites on the web. Back on September 30th, I wrote about how Facebook was the #2 video site in the United States. Now today, ComScore once again comes out with their video platform report but now Yahoo takes the […]