Why, it's the same as MSN's... "Google." But, Yahoo! is fighting back by placing a Yahoo! search box at the top of the SERPs on a Google search:
I really do feel bad for Yahoo! on this issue. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for Yahoo!'s engineers to endure search logs that are filled with "Google", "Google search", "search Google" and the occassional "myspace" or "Jessica Simpson"... I can see how that might get old very fast.
I'd love to know how effective that "onebox" result is... Can anyone from Yahoo! comment?
Yahoo: "Want to search the Web?" User: "Yes, but not with you."
Too funny. I wish I had a T-shirt with that on it. :)
I thought you didn't want people sending stuff to you at the 'plex :D
I work for an ISP and I think I have a reason for at least part of this phenomenon. A lot of people who aren't used to the technology of computers and internet specific applications tend to confuse their search bar for their address bar. This often times leads them to accidentally searching for the site they have a URL for. Many times a day I ask a customer to test their connection by going to popular sites and once they hit enter, I ask them to read what the page shows and more than half of them will read back to me the search results for www.testurl.com.
I posted this article to Digg:
https://digg.com/technology/Yahoo_s_most_popul...
It hit the front page and stayed there for an hour or so before it was pulled. It now contains the "Warning: The Content in this Article is Under Review. Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate."
Any response or thoughts?
Diggers are an especially critical and trigger happy group. From what I have seen with my own content that has appeared there, they generally know a lot less about the topics that they comment on than the author/creator.
We're not paying attention that 1. maybe these searchers aren't searching "google" to go to google.com, maybe they are searching "google" to find news, articles, stock quotes, etc, and 2. perhaps these are happy Y! or MSN users doing this research or, 3. people researching what others are saying about Google might question the 'unbiased' results of doing research on Google
My aside: do the studies show that people who search "google" on other SEs are overwhelmingly going to the google.com link next, or are they going to other services google provides, news on google, the lastest buy-outs, stock prices, etc.
Tanya - the clickpath and research is showing that what you're primarily dealing with is navigational based searches (99%+).
The searchers are generally folks who use Google to search, but have MSN/Yahoo! as their home page (a very common thing). Rather than use the URL bar, they use the search box to navigate. The top searches web-wide looks something like:
google search google myspace my space google.com myspace.com ebay e bay ebay.com some celebrities
How do you know 'google' is the top search term on Yahoo! and MSN? What is your source?
Yahoo is my source on that, but I can't name names. You can also ask Hitwise's database if you have access to it (or Comscore or Nielsen Netratings). It's fairly well known in the search industry - comes up at a lot of conferences and in talks between search folks.
Why don't yahoo just deindex google, so people will use yahoo instead of google. By the way, I think yahoo provides better customer service than google.
There are lots of spammers on some of these old posts.
What blows my mind is how many people type "Google" into Google. I mean, you are on google, why are you typing google?
If you are in the Google adcenter and see the traffic for [Google], they show 2,324 estimated clicks that day. Now, on a popular term with decent relevancy I might give up to 6 percent clickthrough rate. But considering that I hardly see ads when I enter Google in, my guess is its more like a 1 percent clickthrough rate or less. Lets be generous and give it 2 percent clickthrough. With a 2 percent clickthrough rate, that would mean 116,200 people are typing Google into the Google search engine, every single day.
Amazing isn't it?
You're right. There are a bunch of people that type 'google' into Google. There are even more that type 'yahoo' into Google.
https://www.google.com/trends?q=yahoo%2C+googl...
Sad... :^( Please don't leave me!
lol... wake up call!
Damn funny.
One of the best finds I've seen in a while...
I hardly use Y! search myself but I have 2 questions.
Why does someone search for google related stuff on Yahoo and not just use Google itself? Can't be that hard to remember google.com
Not really a question but if someone is doing a search on Y! then that person obviously is a Y! search user. Then I guess that "special box" is redundant.
It is funny but I see nothing wrong there.
It´s odd, but many search users are doing crazy searches and e.g. search for the homepage of BMW, Ebay or other big companies with a search engine. Some are doing this because it´s faster typing the search and click on the results than typing the url.
It's like Yahoo! is the ugly girl who gets excited about hanging out with the dreamy captain of the football team, only to be crushed when the hot captain (aka the user) asks for Yahoo!'s hot friend (aka Google)'s phone number. So sad.
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