Facebook Overtakes Yahoo: Now the Second Most Visited Site in U.S.
Every so often an article crops up discussing Yahoo's popularity, and I am again and again amazed at the fact that so many people still visit Yahoo in general. I haven't used their portal since late 1999, and I don't know many other people who do. There are a few ancient relics out there who still use yahoo mail, but even they seem to be fewer and further between (somehow gmail just appears to be more...professional, My friends would put gmail on their resume, but would not be caught dead with a yahoo mail account... it is akin to a hotmail account for professional purposes)...
I would really love to see a thorough study of yahoo demographics and traffic driven, as well as how much of it is actually through partnerships (in Canada, Rogers partners with yahoo, so they kind of force feed you a lot of their services through the yahoo portals) and not direct yahoo traffic.
"In the first month of 2010 ... Facebook’s traffic rose to 133.62 million visitors" http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/facebook-unseats-yahoo/
"More than 400 million active users" http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Hey, people are primarily interested in other people. Go figure.