seroundtable.com— Observations about the demographic differences between the two search engines and how the sexes use them differently.
Apr 18, 2007View in Crawl 4
Maybe its the fact that when women install Yahoo im, they just go next , next, next finish, so it gives them the yahoo toolbar and makes it their default homepage. Most smart men would hit customize and uncheck those options.
Google is great, but don't forget that Yahoo! Fantasy Sports is pretty big, and audience is largely male, like the digg audience. Google does not (currently) pander to the sports enthusiast. They tend to pander to geeks only. So I end up using both for different reasons.
I use Google to search (with FireFox McAfee SiteAdvisor extension)... but sometimes Clusty ... never Yahoo search. I do start each day with the Yahoo portal for news, then switch to Google, then to Digg and Google Reader, usually in that priority order.
Great idea. How about a story about how some of my colleagues and I are better at mathematics and programming than nearly all of you, even though we're attractive young women? :)There are geek girls everywhere, digg. Look outside of your world.
tawniApr 18, 2007
I'm female and I only use google. I can not stand yahoo.
Closed AccountApr 18, 2007
Maybe its the fact that when women install Yahoo im, they just go next , next, next finish, so it gives them the yahoo toolbar and makes it their default homepage. Most smart men would hit customize and uncheck those options.
chrokoApr 18, 2007
That's the best comment yet. Making blanket "I hate X" comments is beyond stupid. If you really can't use anything that either company has to offer - then you probably don't use a computer:<a class="user" href="http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/">http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/">http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/</a>(I'm tired of directing people to <a class="user" href="http://search.yahoo.com">http://search.yahoo.com</a> when they complain that Yahoo's front page is cluttered. Duh - they're a portal. And who uses search pages anyway with the Firefox search bar?)
deeaudsApr 18, 2007
so not true
rstrb8rApr 18, 2007
Google is great, but don't forget that Yahoo! Fantasy Sports is pretty big, and audience is largely male, like the digg audience. Google does not (currently) pander to the sports enthusiast. They tend to pander to geeks only. So I end up using both for different reasons.
gigaApr 19, 2007
Because it had reference to Girls and Google.
moreliaApr 19, 2007
I use Google to search (with FireFox McAfee SiteAdvisor extension)... but sometimes Clusty ... never Yahoo search. I do start each day with the Yahoo portal for news, then switch to Google, then to Digg and Google Reader, usually in that priority order.
gooieApr 19, 2007
You are my idol.
diggnationdevonApr 19, 2007
women these days...
misstakeAug 12, 2007
Great idea. How about a story about how some of my colleagues and I are better at mathematics and programming than nearly all of you, even though we're attractive young women? :)There are geek girls everywhere, digg. Look outside of your world.
tylernitJul 9, 2009
I would have thought men would be using Yahoo, because Yahoo sucks.