Yahoo’s search market share continues to grow following the switch by Firefox from Google to Yahoo as the default search engine in their browser. Many people expected Yahoo’s search market share to start declining after the initial jump, as more users became aware that the default search they were using wasn’t actually Google. But in […]
Google Drops Below 75% of Desktop Searches, Yahoo overtakes Bing as Second Largest Search Engine
For the first time since July 2008, Google has dropped below 75% for their share of US desktop searches, losing ground to the Firefox driven Yahoo Search. Google now owns 73.67% of US desktop searches. In December, that number was 75.14%. It is worth noting that it’s a desktop searches where Google suffered this drop, […]
comScore Shows Google Lost 1.6% of Search Share When Firefox Made Yahoo Default Search Engine
The latest comScore data following the Firefox switch to Yahoo as its default search provider shows that it was as impactful to Google’s search share has was believed. Google saw a 1.6% decrease in their overall search share while Yahoo jumped up by 1.6%. It’s not a huge surprise, as many people didn’t realize that […]
Google Loses 2% of Search Share After Firefox Makes Yahoo Default Search
When Firefox announced that they would be changing their default search engine from Google to Yahoo, and many people were quite curious to see just how many Firefox users would be switching their search engine. And it would appear that the answer is quite a few as Google suffers the largest search share loss since […]
Bing Search, Along With Yahoo Search, Down For 30 Minutes
Bing Search, as well as Yahoo Search which is powered by results from Bing, has gone down, with “Bing Services Not Available Now” showing up when someone goes to Bing.com. The service went down about 11:25 PST and was back up at 11:45 PST. Yahoo Search was initially showing their regular search results page with […]
Yahoo Directory Officially Closes a Few Days Early, Transitions to Yahoo Small Business
The Yahoo directory has officially closed its doors, a few days earlier than expected. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land was the first to notice the closure of the long running directory this past weekend. The Yahoo directory used to be an essential part of SEO many, many years ago. But as SEO practices evolved, […]
Yahoo Set to Surpass Twitter to 3rd For Mobile Advertising in US
Yahoo is making huge steps in the mobile advertising marketplace, as it is set to surpass Twitter for the third-largest company in mobile advertising in the US. Yahoo is now projected to be the largest gainer of U.S. mobile-ad market share between 2014 and 2016, according to new data from eMarketer out today. Yahoo’s mobile-ad […]
Mozilla Finally to Release iOS Firefox Browser, Could Yahoo Be Why?
Mozilla has been saying for over four years that it would not release an iOS version of Firefox due to Apple’s restrictions on search apps. However, it looks as though Firefox is finally recognizing the need for a Firefox for iOS, according to comments made at an internal Firefox event in Portland on Tuesday. We […]
Latest Firefox Asks Users to Change to Yahoo Search for Default Search Engine
A couple of weeks after Firefox announced that Yahoo would become the default search engine in their web browser, the latest update this morning now has Yahoo as the default search engine. The latest version of Firefox, Firefox 34, makes the change to Yahoo as the default search engine in their search box. If you […]
Implications of Firefox Switching Default Search From Google to Yahoo
When Mozilla Firefox and Yahoo announced that Yahoo would now be the default search engine used by the Firefox browser, it raised some eyebrows. After all, Google is the predominant search engine used throughout most of the world. However, many others have been expecting either Yahoo, Bing, or even Duck Duck Go to swoop […]