YouTube Slips Past Yahoo as World’s #2 Search Engine
YouTube Slips Past Yahoo as World’s #2 Search Engine
Posted 10/17/2008 at 11:25am
| by Alex Castle
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When it comes to search engine popularity, Yahoo must have gotten used to playing second fiddle to Google. However, things just got a little worse for the big Y, as YouTube received more search traffic in August than Yahoo, clinching the #1 and #2 spots for Google.
YouTube received 2.6 billion search queries on August, barely slipping past Yahoo’s 2.4 billion. Of course, both numbers pale in comparison to Google’s 7.6 billion searches. For the first time, if both of Google’s holdings’ searches are combined, it puts Google at more than 10 billion searches in a single month.
Yahoo’s perpetual suitor Microsoft, meanwhile, served up a combined 1.0 billion searches across all its sites.
Of course, the Yahoo and YouTube’s respective search engines perform largely different functions, making a direct comparison of the two a little futile, but the statistic does nicely illustrate the dominant position Google is establishing for itself in all different sectors of the Web.
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icebird
October 20, 2008 at 12:09pm
I heard a radio ad for Yahoo search the other day and wondered if they were starting to get desparate. I guess this explains it.
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