YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine 125
Dekortage writes "According to the latest ComScore rankings, YouTube's search traffic for August surpassed Yahoo's. The latter dropped roughly 5% in traffic from July. Among other things, this means that Google now owns both of the top two search engines. AdAge further speculates on Google's experimental 'promoted videos' cost-per-click advertising on YouTube, suggesting the obvious: more money."
Re:Without porn?!? HOW??? (Score:1, Informative)
Youtube may not host "porn" but with the right search terms you can find some pretty porny stuff.
Re:Without porn?!? HOW??? (Score:5, Informative)
There is a special keyword to use on youtube to get to the porn section. You must not have elite access. Just email them asking for elite access with a hacker resume of sorts and you should be able to gain access. Just keep it on the down low though.
Re:"Search engine"? (Score:4, Informative)
People use Google or Youtube when they're not sure where to look. grep is for people who have a specific set of data to search through and need a line containing a specific term.
Wrong wrong and wrong (Score:3, Informative)
The article is being read incorrectly. "YouTube/All Other" is surpassing Yahoo!, meaning anything that is part of Google! could be included, such as the book, code and news searches. Or groups. Or Picasa. All combined.
Take a look at Microsoft's stats. It's split into Live and Microsoft.com/All Other
Re:Without porn?!? HOW??? (Score:5, Informative)
If porn is what you're looking for, there are sites very similar to YouTube where that's all they do.
http://www.youporn.com [youporn.com]
http://www.pornotube.com [pornotube.com]
Just to provide two examples.
Re:YouTube is not a search engine (Score:5, Informative)
People who search on yahoo are not looking to stay at yahoo. People who search at youtube are looking to stay at youtube. This story is bogus.
It should be pointed out that the article doesn't call YouTube a search engine. It lists rankings of the 5 major search engines, then it does a separate ranking of "search activity", which includes any kind of searching within a website, and includes such searchable sites as MapQuest, MySpace, and Amazon.
Re:"Search engine"? (Score:3, Informative)
True, a better comparison to Youtube would be wiki, when you already know where the content is, but need to filter it.
Re:"Search engine"? (Score:4, Informative)
Neither grep nor YouTube are search engines, in the accepted sense of the word. YouTube employs a search engine to return results, but it isn't one in its own right.
Well then the search engine Youtube employs has overtaken Yahoo.
This argument was a waste of my screen space, moreso than the very debatedly inaccurate summary