Comments on: Poor People More Likely Use Yahoo, Those Better Off To Use Google

By: rostam

rostam — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:58:10 +0000

This is a very well though through and well articulated comment. Thank you for blessing us with your insights.

By: Sigh

Sigh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:00:27 +0000

@ the fanboi:
/facepalm

By: Moron

Moron — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:53:30 +0000

Not “more creative people” but people who like eye candy more than content.

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By: T-Shirt Talk

T-Shirt Talk — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:35:34 +0000

Glad to see this type of info/discussion getting out there even if its not super detailed. Understanding demographics with SEM is important.

By: gamermk

gamermk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:50:51 +0000

Money Spent Online does not = Wealth.

The headline should have read, “People who use Google Spend more Money online than People who use Yahoo”.

Interesting findings though nonetheless.

By: david windham

david windham — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:56:18 +0000

way to draw a line in the sand.. that’ funny..

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:49:29 +0000

p.s. i’m poor (compared to #105) and i like google. last time i checked google = free, yahoo = expensive (as far as supplementary services go) … so i did have to double check the graph when i first saw it…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:44:55 +0000

@#91 i think he means hitwise plotted the graph, released the report… he’s just reporting on the graph hitwise released… but i could be wrong.

so what, do you want the “blogger-brownie-button for digging up the most irrelevant piece of information” award? if so, here you go. enjoy. if not, thank duncan for pointing you in the direction of the people who released the study so you can commence to trolling them. just a thought…

i was under the impression the discussion here was being encouraged more along the lines of “could any of this factor in to the ever expanding revenue gap between yahoo and google, and if so, to what degree?” …. oh well…. hehehe, another one bites the dust, as they say.

*sarcasm* you know duncan, i guess we just want you to write the same headline everyday, “Google to return search results today.” … how dare you expect us to “think” about things… where’s Michael to give us our opinion when we need it? */sarcasm*

By: benzldy48

benzldy48 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:14:35 +0000

Wrong, I’m a techie with six figure salary and I love Yahoo! I’ve used Yahoo from the beginning and just seem to find more flexibility and better results than Google…it’s what I’m used too. I’ve tried Google a few times but I always go back to Yahoo. Just another useless study or survey….like polls….LOL

By: Tilion

Tilion — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:27:51 +0000

hell, I use metacrawler… it uses both

By: TommyP

TommyP — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:12:28 +0000

Y! sucks post 4. by Jigar Shah couldnt be further from the truth

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:11:18 +0000

What a ridicules, un-meaningful and irrelevant study this is? I think this is just to create a ripple effect on search engines! Just for the ratings and robots!

By: iPhone man

iPhone man — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:02:47 +0000

Is this like Google is like Obama, Yahoo like Hillary?

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:08:29 +0000

I think rather than socio-economic difference it is more likely due to gender differences.

By: Kredyty

Kredyty — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:24:31 +0000

I always use Google.

By: New Fast Browser

New Fast Browser — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:37:52 +0000

Statistics gone wild.

http://www.jhatak.com/Buckler/BucklerHomePage.htm

By: Zednz

Zednz — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:34:20 +0000

Conversion : Yahoo Search vs Google…

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....se-google/ A TechCrunch interpretation of socioeconomic data that attempts to split users of the Yahoo Google search engines. Worth scanning through the comments for other rat…

By: Adam Hevenor

Adam Hevenor — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:06:44 +0000

Interesting. Yahoo has done some more broad reaching advertising compared to Google (do they advertise?).

Anyways, I use both. Yahoo for Flickr and Pipes. Google for Search, Maps, and Google Docs/Spreadsheets.

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By: Rushabh Choksi

Rushabh Choksi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:29:36 +0000

i personally feel that it is more of “techies” vs “non techies” besides that at times yahoo search does provide some relevant and useful results than google.

By: syzito

syzito — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:43:49 +0000

What a dumb-assed study.Junk science at its best.

By: poor boy

poor boy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:35:13 +0000

I’m poor and use Yahoo because when you search “entitlement” I get more relevant results than in Google.

By: stray

stray — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:02:37 +0000

Hypothesis needs verification.

By: /pd

/pd — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:45:36 +0000

“what I cant get is why people are blaming me for Hitwise’s data: folks, I didn’t make it so, I’m simply reporting it,”

Is that so ??

If you look carefully it is not HITWISE data that the your point to. It is an opinion of hitwise that is based offline data collected by Experian). [where is there no link to review the actual data report, if it exists !!]

Now, IMHO any reporter /responsible blogger would have verified that data know better Duncan !!