In an interesting testament to what users consume on the Internet, YouTube has just passed Yahoo! for the #3 spot of the “most visited” sites on Alexa. Numbers 1 and 2, as you might expect, belong to Google and Facebook respectively, but YouTube’s launch into the 3rd slot is an interesting change.
The question still remains, of course, as to what Yahoo! is. The company seems to want to position itself as a portal, still, but the browsing habits of the general public tend toward the more specific instead of the suggested.
Interestingly, the #1 incoming search result for YouTube is, in fact “YouTube”. While this might be indicative of how people use their browser, it’s also likely that an increasing market share by Google’s Chrome has some bearing. Given the Chrome use of a single “Omnibar” it’s possible that people are simply typing “YouTube” and leaving off the .com portion, resulting in a search rather than a direct call to the URL.
It is fair to note that the #3 ranking is an Alexa Traffic Rank. While it is a somewhat reliable indicator of worldwide site popularity, the results have been called into question a number of times.
For those interested, the round-out of the top 10 goes like this:
- Yahoo!
- Live.com
- Baidu
- Wikipedia
- Blogger
- MSN.com
Mobile searches also lead to the ‘YouTube’ search term as many phones have ‘search portals’ as a homepage instead of URL bar.
Amazing that blogger is still so big. Can’t remember the last time I visited a blogger.com blog…
Yeah – i am surprised as well given it has been labeled the Spammers’ heaven..
If it is such a knock on Yahoo for being the 4th most visited site, what is it for thenextweb for being the 1 billionth most visited site?
Well, to be honest we are at #3452 which is a lot better than being at #1000000000.
To be fair Boris, Lakawak was only 999,996,548 spots off. ;-)
Oh…and this is why blogs are a joke and why blog writers will NEVER be mistaken for serious journalists. YouTube and Yahoo have been trading spots for a LONG time now. (Several months at least.) YouTube spikes on weekends while Yahoo spikes on Mondays. So this huge news story isn’t even a news story at all.
I believe the term is “put up or shut up”. If you’re certain you’d do a better job, please drop us a line ;)
At what point did people decide that all bloggers desperately want to be journalists?
This is expected as because of the “visual” impact
Youtube IS google. So, while I get what Alexa is reporting, I think they ought to be combined. But since the writer is biased (being the editor for the Google Blog) they will most likely seek data to support their own theory, rather than the other way around. This is yellow journalism.
So let me get this straight: Because YOU think that they should be combined, I’m the one skewing the story? Sorry, but being owned by Google does not equate to being Google.
Note how you didn’t say a word about Live.com and MSN.com being 2 separate things in the top 10 list.
YouTube is a video service, not a search provider. The closest that I’d ever get to equating the two would be if this story were about Google Video.
Biased? Honestly, yes, I probably am. Does it come into play in this story? No. In fact, I think Alexa results are so far skewed that they barely matter. I’m pretty sure I alluded to that in the post.
It’s not journalism, therefore it isn’t yellow journalism. If you want journalism, subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. But what you apparently want to do is run your mouth, so you’ve found your platform.
Pardon me while I golf clap for you.
Go get em tiger.
you are very right – this isn’t journalism in any way
enjoy your golf clap – if a golf clap happens on the web – and nobody is there to hear it – it doesn’t count
^^Winner!
That’s like saying – for example – that the traffic for whitehouse.gov should be combined with every US government website as the administration is part of the government, and then Alexia should report the entire US government as one website. Do tell, does that make sense? Also – there is no “theory” here, Brad just stated who Alexia ranked the sites.
We really can’t deny that YouTube has become one of the most popular websites because it is one of those sites that originated in video sharing and people can join the site for free.
Wow this is truly amazing news. Who woulda thunk it.
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Yahoo isn’t that great. It’s good and I visit it everyday, but still, I would much rather use youtube.
Pretty interesting to see the dominance of google in searches.
pretty interesting
What’s Yahoo!?
all the best for thenextweb it is now on 3430
Actually it doesn’t suprise me really
really that is very nice content , it surprise me.
really that is very nice content ,
The queswtion was asked by another site, what suggestions do you have to advance free expression? My answer is I think the question is best left to the pornographers who are those who are asking the question. They
have taken the quest for totla freedom to all media now. The real question is whether porn is an expression of free artistic display, or filth.
To those who admit filth even exists without denial , it is the latter