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."
Yeah, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:"Search engine"? (Score:5, Interesting)
A lot of people search the videos for information, talks by Richard Dawkins, car reviews, whatever. I think it's perfectly valid to call Youtube a search engine, even though it's a very specialized one.
Re:Regulatory Problems? (Score:4, Interesting)
That's a good point. For most google searches these days I tend to get something like this:
1. Wikipedia entry
2,3 youtube videos
4. google news
5.... everything else, still sprinkled with videos, mostly youtube
If google owned Wikipedia then most of their top search results would be leading back to google sites.
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Not Suprising..... (Score:4, Interesting)
This is no suprise..... Yahoo has long allowed their service to degrade in favor of profit. The thing that made Google *the* search engine when they came out was that the page consisted of just a logo that said GOOGLE and a field to enter your search into. If you wanted info on other services GOOGLE had to offer, all you did was click a little hyperlink and you would then be taken to another page with the services on it.
Yahoo, on the other hand, crammed their page with every advertisement, product plug, sales pitch, and "junk" shopping service they could possibly fit onto the page.
Google is a simple, easy to use search engine, and it is absolutely no suprise it has become as giant as it is. This is mainly due to the simple, uncluttered sales-pitch free interface. The simple interface ade people want to use it, thus generating more money, thus allowing it to grow bigger.
Yahoo has turned itself into the America Online of serch engines: Nothing but advertisements, sales pitches, product tie-ins, marketing, and "junk" services.
Re:Not Suprising..... (Score:5, Interesting)