Yahoo US search share sputters, Google rebounds
Following a six-month upward trend for Yahoo’s US search market share, Bartz’s baby hit a brick wall in February according to comScore, sliding slightly from 21 percent in January to 20.6 percent. It’s a very small decline of course, but you can be sure Yahooligans would have liked to see a continued upward trend as Microsoft shows a renewed interest in search talks. At the same time, Yahoo’s share still sits above the crucial 20 percent mark which is no small feat considering the dominant opposition. Slight slip aside, Yahoo is unquestionably making good progress as comScore reports an astounding 12 percent year to year growth in Q4. Other notables from the February US report: MSN dropped to 8.2 percent from 8.5 percent in January, Ask rose to 4.1 percent from 3.7 percent in January, AOL stayed flat at 3.9 percent and Google snuck up to 63.3 percent from 63 percent in January.
Seriously, these sumo pictures are catching me off guard… especially if I am on my iPhone and someone looks over and sees me just staring at a sumo pic…
As for the article
Google can never die! And now that Sergey has a mutated parkinsons gene, Google will rename to Google MD!
I love the images. We could use more lolcats. You guys seriously should just do a day, where you make lolcats pictures out of every story – just for anything to do it. Even if its absurdly lame, why the heck not?
Love the lmage too lol.
Its baffling that ask doesn’t have more to show for all of their marketing efforts.
I like yahoo. I just prefer Google’s clean page…
oh yeah… ask…
remember the days of altavista infoseek and others?
lol nostalgia
Is there a reason to use one over the other?
Next time I go searching, I might try Yahoo’s just to see if there’s any difference.
I just use Google’s from way back when Google was the only search engine that really worked. And, I live the other services Google provides better than Yahoo’s. E.g., GMail provides from IMAP access whereas Yahoo Mail doesn’t. Seems like every service I look into, Google’s got an extra feature or two I really want to use that Yahoo doesn’t have.