Who uses Yahoo?
By DavidFisher. Filed in technology |Tags: alexa, dave fisher, David Fisher, google, mybloglog, SEO, tibbon, top, traffic, usage, who, yahoo, youtube
Yahoo is ranked as the #1 site on the Internet by Compete and Alexa. Google being #2 by traffic.
My question is who the hell uses Yahoo? These services don’t group together all of their web properties likes YouTube or Orkut. The only two Yahoo properties that I personally visit are Flickr and MyBlogLog. Everything else is Google.
I know that I’m not the “typical” internet user, but I don’t see anyone and I mean anyone going to Yahoo for search, groups, email, etc these days. Then again, half the people I know have iPhones, and 3/4 use Apples.
As a small note, Yahoo doesn’t seem to index my blog pretty much at all. Maybe that will change since I’m using MyBlogLog now, but all of my search traffic comes from Google. Does Yahoo play favorites when it comes to what blogs they will search since this one is Google hosted?
UPDATE: Stella was wondering why I would want my blog indexed. It’s a good question. I guess the easiest answer is that I want this to be a public blog to serve as a discussion with the public about things that I don’t mind for the most part being public information. I generally don’t talk about relationships, friends, etc… and much more of it is stuff that I want to have a public forum for.
I’m honestly hoping to start blogging better soon. I write a lot, but I don’t write well imho. Maybe someday.
why on earth would you want google to pick up your blog in the first place? I fight day in and day out to keep mine OFF of search engines. There are enough lurkers on my blog anyway.
That is total crap. Really. There is no way Yahoo beats Google. I’d like to see a fist fight to resolve this.