Searchers 'Google' at Yahoo & 'Yahoo' at Google
Go to Yahoo Search and use their search suggestions. All I want you to do is enter in "G" into the search box and obtain the search suggestions.
Yea, Google comes up as a suggestion. This is really a common thing. People go to search engines to find other search engines. In fact, I have seen several clients go to Google.com and type in "google" to get back to Google.com. I am not joking.
The search suggestions typically try to show you the most common searches for your partial search phrase. It is not surprising to me that Google is a popular search at Yahoo. In fact, try typing in "Y" into Google, you will see Google puts YouTube first, but in fact, Yahoo is search more often, according to the numbers:
Again, not surprising.
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rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Engine at September 3, 2008 8:13 AM
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Just goes to show how many stupid people there are out there in the world. Maybe this should highlight to us the aspect of usability of a website - doesn't matter if they can find you, can the then do what you want them to do, buy something etc.....???
Posted by Chris Whatley at September 3, 2008 11:43