Google vs Yahoo - the MB/GB wars

[LV89148]

Yahoo must be feeling the heat from the still unlaunched Google Gmail. This morning I see that my free Yahoo email which had been limited to 6MB, now is 100MB and attachments can be up to 10MB.

I don't use Yahoo email that often but it is nice to know now I don't have to be constantly on guard against going over the MB limit any more from the inevitable spam that creeps in despite your best efforts.

Ain't competition great?!!!

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[Ron]

I like the old limits. They forced my sister to tell me her cable email address so I could send a couple of large attachments to her.

With a 6MB limit, what do you think the average yahoo user consumes?

There are probably some good statistics that one coule pull up and look at on this... somewhere locked in some corporate vaults.

There's probably
X percentage that keep virutually nothing around,
X percentage that keep the mailbox up to its limit,
X percentage that try to keep the size down

Yahoo deletes accounts and their contents if they are inactive and don't log in periodically. Would be interesting to see the stats.

Speaking of Yahoo / Google wars, I just saw somne stats that were quite frankly surprising to me on search engine share, which I can't find now. But IIRC, they listed Google in the high mid 30s share. Here are the current comscore mediametrix ratings:

But not all search engines provide their own content. Here's where comscore says who the data supplier is:

But a year ago, here were the stats:

1. Google 55.2%
2. Yahoo 21.7%
3. MSN Search 9.6%
4. AOL Search 3.8%
5. Terra Lycos 2.6%
6. Altavista 2.2%
7. Askjeeves 1.5%
Source: http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox21.html

What had surprised me is that Google really isn't the dominant player that I thought it was. Big? Heck ya! Microsoft-like dominant? No way.
I couldn't understand with my relatively high search result placements on Google, why I was seeing the percentage from Google decreasing, yahoo and MSN increasing, over time, while my site traffic was way up. I continue to see this now.

I know this almost random sampling of statistics is not optimal, but maybe I should be spending more time optimizing for Yahoo.

[Piyer]

I will believe it when I see it! One of my accounts still only has 6mb of space, and my other one I can't access at all. *grumble*

[Oldfrog]

still unlaunched Google Gmail

?? I've been exchanging emails with a friend on @gmail most of the day now.

[Connie]

Originally posted by LV89148
Yahoo must be feeling the heat from the still unlaunched Google Gmail. This morning I see that my free Yahoo email which had been limited to 6MB, now is 100MB and attachments can be up to 10MB.

I don't use Yahoo email that often but it is nice to know now I don't have to be constantly on guard against going over the MB limit any more from the inevitable spam that creeps in despite your best efforts.

Ain't competition great?!!!

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Just don't forget to log in ocassionaly, or you will find that you have to register again, and all e-mail is lost.

[mattsiegman]

Originally posted by Ron
Sure. Delete your post, this post, and the FIRST one. (It isn't in my ID -- it's in as a guest)

Thanks.


PS I'd think you could find more exciting things to delete and occupy your time on these fora... but go for it!

well, double posts wierd me out, but there something like a month apart and i just noticed that....

[Ron]

"Google's 5.65 billion U.S. queries [37.6% market share -Ron] placed it at the top of the Web ferret pack for the quarter, followed by Yahoo, with 4.65 billion queries and a 30.4 percent market share; MSN, with 2.39 billion queries and a 15.6 percent share; AOL/Time Warner, with 1.41 billion queries and a 9.2 percent share; and Ask Jeeves, with 934 million queries and a 6.1 percent share."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/44772.html

[Jaded]

What had surprised me is that Google really isn't the dominant player that I thought it was. Big? Heck ya! Microsoft-like dominant? No way.
I couldn't understand with my relatively high search result placements on Google, why I was seeing the percentage from Google decreasing, yahoo and MSN increasing, over time, while my site traffic was way up. I continue to see this now.

I suspect most people use the pre-installed homepage as a launchpad. After all, Google doesn't offer much content on its homepage. I suspect market-share in ip services accounts for the large numbers for yahoo and msn.

At home, Yahoo would cost me a small fortune to have installed (I prefer cable anyway).

At the office, cable isn't available, (too expensive to wire the building) so we're stuck with Yahoo.

And msn for dialup?