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- vramdal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45There is a logical explanation to this. If you type just "yahoo" in the browser location bar, some browsers will assume you want to search for the term "yahoo", and pass it as a parameter to the default search engine.
I've seen many people do this - they then get Google's search results, and happily click on the top result. Many people don't know that they can just add ".com" to get directly to Yahoo. - doctornkul, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41It could be easily possible that people type in just 'yahoo' in their address bar in Firefox. As with all queries that aren't a web address, this will cause firefox to do a google search for the term and pick the first result. So it could be possible that a lot of people are simply typing yahoo (without the .com) into their address bar, and therefore going through google search. This could also affect people whose homepage is google in IE, because if they start typing something and press enter, it will also do a google search.
- davidv, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27* Browses to yahoo.com *
* Runs a search for Google *
There I've helped even the field - catullus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15dugg for the very cleverly thought out title.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Try this in firefox. Go to the URL bar and type yahoo. You'll get sent to yahoo.com. It's because firefox searches google with an "I'm feeling lucky" search if the text doesn't match a web address. This could very well be because lots of yahoos out there don't bother typing ".com" after yahoo and end up unknowlingly searching google before ending up at yahoo.com.
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That would make sense since Yahoo still claims to be the Internet's most popular website.
- atelophobee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10or ctrl+enter (on most browsers)
and no, nothing's wrong with the trend tool. just b/c google isn't filtering the results in their favor doesn't mean something's wrong with it. - MattyLite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wasn't there a story on digg a few days ago saying that "google" was one of the top search entries on yahoo? This seems to be common.
- MarkByers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I often search for google on Google. Personally I have searched for 'Google Maps', 'Google Language Tools', 'Google sets', 'Google news' and all sorts of other services tons of times. I find using Google to find my favourite pages (or using autocomplete on the address) is faster than organising and maintaining a bookmarks collection for the searches I perform most often. I only use bookmarks if I think that I might forget what I should search for in Google to find the page.
Also Firefox does an automatic 'I''m Feeling Lucky search' and I often type 'google something' in the address bar of computers where I haven't configured 'google' as a smart keyword. This causes the word 'Google' to be added to the search instead of telling Firefox to take me to the results page.
These two factors account for maybe a hundred of searches for 'Google' in Google from me.
So why don't people search for sex so much? Firstly, the results are just spam (so I have heard...), and those that continue to search for terms like 'sex' despite the results being useless will soon find that their computers no longer function correctly due to malware.
Seems a pretty obvious conclusion to me. - slythfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6At least we can probably make the assumption that Google isn't fudging the results. A company who might, might take out their compeditor from the top searches list.
- 7diesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4top regions for "sweden"...
1. Nigeria
2. Sweden
3. Pakistan
4. Norway
5. Finland
6. Denmark
7. Ireland
8. Israel
9. United Kingdom
10. India
nigeria? - muyuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Add the fact that most people now where to look for sex already in the net. My guess is they search for more specific terms than "sex."
- muffinmanpoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Unless they leave it in so you'll assume they're not fudging *other* results?
- mwebb1984, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I can believe that Yahoo would be that common of a term....... For example, in the past couple days i've been setting up SBC/Yahoo dsl, and personally i've made maybe 30 queries containing "Yahoo" -- and that's more queries including the same word than any other things i've searched for for a long time.
- 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6exclamation mark!!!!!!!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Top regions for "sex":
1. Pakistan
2. Egypt
3. Viet Nam
4. Iran
5. Morocco
6. India
7. Saudi Arabia
8. Turkey
9. Philippines
10. Poland
Top regions for "yahoo"
1. Malaysia
2. Peru
3. Romania
4. India
5. Philippines
6. Colombia
7. France
8. Venezuela
9. Japan
10. Mexico
Not many americans there... - combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My mom uses the google field on her Firefox to find Google. She says it's less typing without the "dot com" part.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If i don't have 50 million text links to nothing on my screen it's just not a search engine god damnit!
Having accurate results in a neatly formatted page is ugly!!!
Google should link to every service they offer right on the main page!!! - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A lot of people use Yahoo as their portal/mail/IM and Google as their search engine. I bet Google is pretty high on Yahoo's search ranks too.
- alexmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you enter sex, yahoo It says that Cairo Egypt is roughly 3 times more interested in sex than it is yahoo. Also, my hometown of Vancouver Canada likes google more than yahoo just by a sliver. SF like yahoo by quite a bit more.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What I like is this:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google.com%2C+yahoo.com&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
I guess people seldom search for the google site itself on google, but plenty of people must accidentally (or lazily) search for the yahoo homepage, and it seems its slowly gaining. - msafi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just wanna let you know that it's more common for non-English speakers to search for "sex" because the word is easier than, say "barely legal" or "shaved asians" or even "porn"...
Honestly, when was the last time you used the keyword "sex" in your search for porn? - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stop trying to get traffic to your site... ;)
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+3Like my parents. They search for everything, even if all they need to do is add a ".com". I should get them used to I'm Feeling Lucky and Firefox..
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As if you'd search for sex, try "lesbian" and "porn"....
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ah, good to see muslim countries adopting our...uhm...values.
- RBotros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2People come on .. who searches for the query "sex" when he wants porn? yahoo mayb searched for news and everything but "sex" is the worst query to use .. leading to nothing..
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use Google to search up Yahoo Buzz Game whenever I feel like playing.
I can't remember the URL... it's http://buzz.research.yahoo.com or something. - bobdole34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.google.com/trends?q=yahoo%2C+google%2C+sex&ctab=2&geo=all&date=all
This says it all :D - cprior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always use the google search bar to access webpages that I visit (mostly) infrequently. As a matter of fact, my browser address bar history is my condensed bookmark list: I go to extremes to keep that list short and tidy.
If /I/ paste even "click here to generate a new password for you"-links in the google search bar, then I am sure a lot of people type 'yahoo' in there, too. And yes, it might even be wise to keep "p**n" outside your browser address history... - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I smell Coca vs Pepsi commercial.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also noticed that the top results were overwhelmingly non-American.
So I changed the Region in Google Trends to "United States" and ended up with a current ranking of
1. Yahoo
(gap)
2. Google
(gap)
3/4. MSN & Microsoft (too close to call)
But it turns out that for the US, Myspace has surpassed them all! - ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A lot of people don't know there is an address bar. They type things into the Google search box instead. That is one reason Google will always be number one. People think it is their address bar. If you have a popular website you will see a lot of traffic from Google with your url as the search term.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What a fascinating social experiment Google has become. I find it interesting that the top countries searching for "sex" are mostly the most socially repressed countries in the world.
- r00tl3ss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think there might be a simpler explanation: IM. People are probably looking for the Yahoo Messenger and MSN messenger download pages. Which would explain why 'MSN' is more popular than 'Microsoft'.
- goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's nothing odd about these results.
Search pages are the pages people go to most frequently. Because most online information is found via search. And a person has to get to a search page before he can use it.
Before a person searches for "sex" or "drugs" or "bush", he has to go to a search page. 43% (as of 23 May 2006) of all searches are done through Google.
Google search is a easy, fast, and reliable way to get to Yahoo's page. Or, if you're using a google search box built into the browser, it's even a fast way to get to Google's own page. You type in one word and click twice. People know this and use it.
Bookmarks are faster, sure, but they're not perfect. A lot of people don't, can't, or couldn't be bothered to organize and use them. And even users who do use bookmarks will still use the search method when they are on a "public" computer. Again, search is easy, fast, and reliable.
You need to consider why in the last quarter, Google's revenue from advertising on its own sites (not partner sites) was 1.3B. Or you could just spend 30 minutes watching a typical computer user surf the web. - dimatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Yahoo&word2=sex
Yahoo absolutely destroys sex in terms of search results though - emostar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That is just like my mom... everytime she goes to my homepage she types it into MSN Search (and she puts the .org too!). But my mom doesn't even know what Yahoo is.. so the real question is, who the hell searches the term "Yahoo" on google??
- samdu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't understand why anyone would search for a term when the term IS the URL. If you already know the term "Yahoo," just type it into the address bar and be done with it. Unless these people are searching for Yahoo Serious. In which case, I think the end of the world is nigh.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's another article on the same subject.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/721682 - DaviDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They are searching for yahoo, because they're curious.
They want to compare google with yahoo.
Still, google remains the most used search engine. They don't like what they find.
Kunfabulator, Flickr and del.icio.us are cool, but they are not yahoo's native projects. - RADicalSatDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google is just search, and email to some but...
Yahoo! offers so much more, Email, Bookmarks, Briefcase, LAUNCHcast, Y! 360 blogging, Messenger and Podcasts, these are just some of the services I actively use, others might use hunderds more, best part is, its all hooked up. I wonder when they'll link main Yahoo! IDs to del.icio.us. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"nobody searched google on google"
Actually, people type "google" and "yahoo" into their search engine toolbars all the time. That's where this sort of search comes from. Toolbars.
I've got a yahoo employee in my immediate family. :p
"That would make sense since Yahoo still claims to be the Internet's most popular website."
Alexa agrees - Terc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. I seriously laughed out loud. Thanks for that
- yaosio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google trends is either broken, or the first annual granny/tranny expo took place in early 2006.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=granny+porn%2C+tranny+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all - sphinx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its true they do want it more than sex!
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=yahoo&word2=sex - theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they were all seaching for "who else thinks yahoo sucks"
- qwerty967, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OT: What's the most popular website porn sites link to when you click exit? Disney.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=exit
Yahoo and Google are up there in the results too. - tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*sigh, Google trends doesn't compare queries but subqueries. So it's every possible phrase containing the word Yahoo against every possible phrase containing the word sex. 'Sex' has a lot of synonyms and related terms, 'Yahoo' does not.
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