Why is Yahoo number one in Alexa?

You are correct that alexa rankings can be easily manipulated. But not in the case for those websites that are ranked in the first 1000. Websites within this rank can't keep manipulate alexa ranking as they will not show their interest on them and also there will be extremely huge traffic in every site under 1000 alexa ranks so that it is not so easy to cheat alexa.

 

what about yahoo videos? They are subdomain in yahoo but not the case with Google. Youtube is JUST next to yahoo and Google in ranking. So, consider if youtube.com is not separate but a subdomain of Google.

That one single website itself may be capable of taking Google above than Yahoo as youtube is just ranking 3rd. Anyway, there are lot other national TLD's used by Google for search purpose. Like Google.co.in and google.co.uk which are just ranking within 30s. Just think in that way if all those separate domains were just a subdomain under Google.com - Google would have been ranking first. But I think Google doesn't even cares about alexa.

 

Yahoo has everything integrated into a single site while Google has everything spread out.

www.yahoo.com > email, search, news...
www.google.com > search engine
www.gmail.com > email

etc

 

Google has loads of different domains, but yahoo has one.
Subdomains don't count.

 

I actually think Yahoo has a better search engine. Many times Google searches lead to MFA sites. Yahoo actually lists relevant authority sites that Google has on page 5, 6 or 7.

 

don't underestimate yahoo ... they have got a good following .... they are more than a search engine after all (though they fail miserabaly when it comes to only search engine)

 

yahoo is number one in alexa simply because alexa deal with traffic and yahoo had a great traffic ratio

 

ROFL.

I think some of your pages are not shown in front page of Google but in yahoo.

My page also is shown in first page of Yahoo for a not much searched keyword. But I still know, Google is the best search engine

 

No. Once again this is wrong.

http://video.google.com/

is equal to

http://video.yahoo.com/

Counting YouTube traffic toward google.com's Alexa rank is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. It will never happen. It should never happen. Saying that it should happen makes no sense whatsoever.

 

No, this is wrong. One more time...

news.google.com = news.yahoo.com
finance.google.com = finance.yahoo.com
mail.google.com = mail.yahoo.com
video.google.com = video.yahoo.com
google.com = yahoo.com

ROFL. www.gmail.com redirects to www.google.com. Sorry.

 

many feel that yahoo has a better search than google when it comes to relevancy.

 

If you ask me - i think Google's gonna purchase Yahoo in a short time Wait and see. It's taking over the whole market. It IS the market.

 

That could be really bad. I'm all for Google and their company because let's face it, if you're a full time webmaster, you rely on Google for your income. However, history has proven that absolute power is never a good thing.

If Google acquires Yahoo they'd own 90% of the search market. Pretty much a monopoly. If MSN gets Yahoo, then MSN suddenly owns nearly 30% of the search market.

Hopefully nobody ever gets Yahoo and Yahoo just stays as is. Google needs healthy competition just like any other company. It helps to keep their standards high.

 

Yahoo without doubt has the most visitors in the world! But Google is king when it comes to search, yahoo provides email services, news and the list goes on!

Its a portal google is a search engine!

 

Because China have the largest population in the world so their viewers have higher chance to have Alexa toolbar installed.

Most importantly China peoples love Yahoo! Yahoo! & Yahoo!

 

Alexa tracks page visits via toolbar and its sense that yahoo.com is most visited and its sections are divided within its subdomains rather than using another domain for it.So yahoo ranks first in alexa.

 

The theory's that are presented in this forum have become comical

 

If you take all google traffic together than it will be much more than yahoo. Still Yahoo is pretty big in itself.

 

it is number one beacuse they have so much other content on the site

 

Wow. I am shocked at how many people believe this. Did anyone actually do some research on their own or are they just repeating wrong information that others give? I'm curious.

But once again, what you have said is wrong.

Proof:
news.google.com = news.yahoo.com
finance.google.com = finance.yahoo.com
mail.google.com = mail.yahoo.com
video.google.com = video.yahoo.com
google.com = yahoo.com