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Brad

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Ma! Granny is usin' Yahoo again!
« on: January 22, 2014, 02:04:10 AM »
According to Comscore Yahoo is the number one search engine on the desktop.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/press-here/Yahoo-Still-Rules-Search-on-Desktops-241372351.html?

So all the youngsters are using Google on phones and tablets.
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Re: Ma! Granny is usin' Yahoo again!
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 05:31:10 AM »
I find this so hard to believe. Yahoo! for mail, sure. As a portal, sure. For news, sure. But really, more people use it for search? So "google" is a verb, but "I'm just going to yahoo that"????

I've got to believe that a large percentage of the people using Yahoo search refer to it as "googling" something.
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Re: Ma! Granny is usin' Yahoo again!
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 06:58:45 AM »
So why do I get so little traffic from Yahoo?

Are the older not searching for my stuff?  unlikely. I am aiming at an older demographic.

Not true in the UK.


So is this one of those hoaxes?
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Re: Ma! Granny is usin' Yahoo again!
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2014, 12:09:34 PM »
I have to say I was stunned when I saw that article headline.  Somebody must be cooking the books.

Conspiracy Theories:

1. Google planted that story so they would not look like a monopoly.
2.  Yahoo planted that story to appear big.
3.  UN guys in Black Helicopters planted that so we won't use Google.
4. Bing somehow got it wrong again.
5. Crop circles.
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Re: Ma! Granny is usin' Yahoo again!
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2014, 03:46:43 PM »
Quote from: Brad on January 22, 2014, 12:09:34 PM
I have to say I was stunned when I saw that article headline.  Somebody must be cooking the books.

Conspiracy Theories:

1. Google planted that story so they would not look like a monopoly.
2.  Yahoo planted that story to appear big.
3.  UN guys in Black Helicopters planted that so we won't use Google.
4. Bing somehow got it wrong again.
5. Crop circles.

6. UFO's

Also .. those figures were only for the month of December and lots of US citizens use Yahoo for shopping so that's probably why the spike in the source data.
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Re: Ma! Granny is usin' Yahoo again!
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2015, 01:56:47 PM »
update:

This and similar has been near the top of reddit for 2 days now:

http://i.imgur.com/Ai6SjJP.jpg
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