Yahoo almost as big as Google?

From my site referers, I always thought that yahoo was much smaller in the search field. I'd get 90% of my search traffic from google, 5% from MSN and 4% from Yahoo.

I was just reading today that Yahoo has 31% of the search Market, and Google has 36%... So, clearly, Yahoo is bringing somone a lot of traffic... and it should be almost as much as Google.

So the question is, do other people see results like this? I've already looked at Yahoo specific optimizations and have incorporated them long ago. What is the big differentiator in getting good results in Yahoo?

 

What???? Where did you read that? Yahoo's internal newsletter. I think they are trying to motivate their employess..
I get a lot of more traffic from Google, maybe 20 times more than yahoo. Do not get me wrong I like Yahoo and I would like them to get a bigger market share but it is not happening in the near future.

 

Is not about Google or Yahoo's size but the fact that Yahoo crawlers visit some sites more often and perform deep crawling, hence they spend more time on-site than Googlebot.

 

this thread is total bollocks - google have 91% of the European search market, and 79% of the US Market.

they have lost 2% in the last year in the US, due to aggressive marketing in the states of BING.

 

I dont think google can be matched as a search engine by yahoo or any other.

 

I get maybe 10% traffic to some of my blogs from Google, and about 40-50% from Yahoo. (thousands of u/v's). I never get any from Bing though, at all, even though I have thousands of pages indexed, and rank well for a bunch of keywords, with a bunch of websites. Wonder why lol.

 

what ever yahoo will do to be no1 every one will say Google is no1 and i am getting good traffic from Google than yahoo

 

According to the latest comscore numbers, Google has 69% of US query traffic, Yahoo has 18.5% and Bing has 11%.

 

No ways man, even i get almost 80% traffic from google so there is no way yahoo is as big as google. Google is way better and brings in much more traffic atleast to my site

 

eh, I think he reads from the Archive...

 

only in yahoo's wild wet dreams could they even get half way close to google. Google is the "king"

 

i don't think so. Google is far ahead than Yahoo or Bing. I get 80% of the Search traffic on my website from Google, although my site rank almost on all major keyword in Yahoo as well.

 

Clearly your numbers are wrong.

 

Where are you getting this information?

 

Yahoo and Google focus on different types of sites. People who like Google do not usually like Yahoo.
It's like Coke and Pepsi

 

What !!!

No buddy Google is way bigger.Yahoo is good but the traffic google gives is the better than yahoo and they both market different areas so yeah they are different.

 

Yahoo acounts for less than 10% of my traffic daily. Google is still the leading search engine by miles.

 

I agree with you guys, Google brings me 85 % of total traffic . Yahoo 8-9 % , so you do the math .

 

Ya from google i get more traffic but now a days yahoo also very wide and bring me good traffic..

 

I initially thought OP was trying to pull a fast one! How else could one explain Yahoo to be getting as big as google?!

Google is way ahead of its rivals and even though both Yahoo and MS have joined hands, they are not likely to pose any meaningful threat to big G's leadership!

Regards,

RightMan