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Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:45:39 +0000

[...] Selon Hitwise, les recherches sur Google sont en hausse pour le moi de mai 2008 et en baisse sur Yahoo: Google détient 68,3% du marché contre 20% pour Yahoo et 5,9% pour Microsoft [...]

By: MOAB

MOAB — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:32:50 +0000

Neither can all your incessant doom-saying about Yahoo (THEY MUST SELL TO M$!!), Arrington.

You must be so excited about these results that you’re fucking your blow-up doll, cigar clenched between your teeth.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Googleの検索シェアは拡大し、Yahooは下落：Hitwise 2008年5月期レポート — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:37:14 +0000

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By: Young

Young — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:11:24 +0000

What is interesting here is that Ask.com is actually GAINING share. That’s incredible! A company with what, 300 people, is about a point and a half away from MSN, a company with about 3000 people on its search side…

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:31:02 +0000

I agree with Vardan, Yahoo’s search algorithm has improved tremendously over the past year, I am currently using Yahoo more often than Google. In my humble opinion, Yahoo indexes more sites than Google, and with new features such as “Yahoo Search Gallery”, it has made search a lot easier. Many of my colleagues have also started to use Yahoo more, but at the end of the day, it’s your choice and no one ought to tell you what you should use.

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By: djacobs

djacobs — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:47:49 +0000

@Chris

Powerset searches Wikipedia
Google, Yahoo searches the Web.

Two different purposes.

By: cooooooooooooool

cooooooooooooool — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:30:20 +0000

@Wolfy

http://metacrawler.com/

That’s been around for ages,

By: Wolfy

Wolfy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:36:48 +0000

No surprises. I’ve noticed a bunch of new search interface tools coming out lately. I wonder when someone will write one that integrates all major search engines in one place so it’ll obviate the competition. There has to be value in the fact that they each give you different results on the same search…

-M

By: Vardan

Vardan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:34:18 +0000

Robert, I actually think Yahoo has better, more relevant search results consistently. Their search algorithms are firing all pistons in my opinion…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:32:46 +0000

The article is critically flawed because all data has a +- error margin and that margin is not stated in the article.

So we can’t know if Yahoo really went down or not.

SNAP

By: JerkCrunch

JerkCrunch — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:07:01 +0000

So, MSN is down too but it doesn’t make the headline?
Is it an attack on Yahoo?
Where you sent by Arrington?
You taking it for the team?

“Google up, Yahoo down and MSN sinks and stinks!”

There, corrected…

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:53:15 +0000

yahoo was coming up strong, wonder what happened?

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:41:22 +0000

Wow…. I guess its time for yahoo to re-write their search algorithm.

I hit google ~ 50 times every day for searching something or other.

Also just to add…I came accross this site today. I thought I will share it with you. If you are a hiring manager or jobseeker visit http://www.leapways.com. They have some good services out there. Especially the interviw service.

Rob

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:35:02 +0000

This is pretty grim news for powerset.com. I am super glad I stopped development on my search engine last year.

I agree with @1 that the changes to the stats for Yahoo are within error margins though.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:30:38 +0000

So what’s the big news Erick? that Yahoo went down 0.33 points? tying this to the “fate of Yahoo” is a bit wee too dramatic IMHO. What I read in table is that Yahoo is an eligible contender and a leader in the search market and has all the justifications in the world to stay an independent company.