Yahoo Has More Staying Power Than Google

Much criticism has been heaped upon Yahoo as the company continues to lag far behind Google in terms of search market share. Those critics, however, might be surprised to find out that Yahoo users actually spend more time on site than those who frequent Google's online offerings. Yahoo in other usage statistics as well. It's a reasonable conclusion, to be sure. If you believe that, however, you're dead wrong. The folks over at eBay and reasons: To list a few: •   Yahoo Mail is the #1 mail provider in existence today. Larger than Gmail. •   Yahoo Finance is probably the most trafficked Finance portal for stock quotes. •   Y! Answers has also now become the #1 answer service on the web. •   In addition, Yahoo also has Personals (personals.yahoo.com), Autos (autos.yahoo.com), Music (music.yahoo.com), HotJobs (hotjobs.yahoo.com), Yahoo Messenger, *Search*, News, Maps, etc, etc [It] all boils down to A LOT of content. It is most likely that mainstream U.S.A. does not leave Gmail up all day, or check out Google Trends often. The data backs this. It appears that reports of Yahoo's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. (Okay, so I like clichs. Sue me.) Perhaps if murdok. Visit murdok for the