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yes, but who's technology would they use? Micro's and Yahoo's branding or......

Spell check the thread title. hahah

I did, Mate. When I removed the extra "m" I thought I had it. Ah well!  

Not the first time, of course.

At least we all know you're on the job and on the ball, Stitch.

Regards,
Laurie.

Actually, if you step back and look at the 'whole' picture, I really don't see G owning that much of the search arena. Let's face it.... most of the people, right now anyways, using G are webmasters and geeks...... a lot of which don't have any REAL money.

The shoppers with the bank-rolls are the soccer moms, the successful local business men, community leaders, etc. Those are the people that have an actual financial influence on the web as a whole, but they just aren't online nearly as much.

Slowly tho, they are coming in more and more, and what do they use? MSN, hands down. It's right there, neatly tucked into IE. They don't know anything about SE's, algo's, who has the best results, etc, because they simply don't give a rats a$$...... they just take what's fed to 'em.

MrStitch wrote:

Slowly tho, they are coming in more and more, and what do they use? MSN, hands down. It's right there, neatly tucked into IE. They don't know anything about SE's, algo's, who has the best results, etc, because they simply don't give a rats a$$...... they just take what's fed to 'em.

Sorry Stitch, gotta disagree with you there.  Looking at my traffic sources, I'm getting 4-6 times as many visitors from Google than Yahoo, and at least 11 times as many as from MSN (6 times if I include Live.com), all with the same bounce rates.  I think Google has become a common enough search site that people are typing it in (or more likely setting a link to it) instead of clicking IE's search function.

Steven_A_S wrote:

MrStitch wrote:

Slowly tho, they are coming in more and more, and what do they use? MSN, hands down. It's right there, neatly tucked into IE. They don't know anything about SE's, algo's, who has the best results, etc, because they simply don't give a rats a$$...... they just take what's fed to 'em.

Sorry Stitch, gotta disagree with you there.  Looking at my traffic sources, I'm getting 4-6 times as many visitors from Google than Yahoo, and at least 11 times as many as from MSN (6 times if I include Live.com), all with the same bounce rates.  I think Google has become a common enough search site that people are typing it in (or more likely setting a link to it) instead of clicking IE's search function.

But do you know what 'type' of people they are? There's a HUGE income gap between college students looking for a camera and a suburbian mom just looking to take some snap shots.

Those suburbanites are the real money holders, and I'm willing to bet they open IE just because it came with the computer, and IE automatically gives them MSN.... and they stick with it.

Then there must be something else going on, cause I just don't see it. Don't care who ya are - Go to any random soccer mom or granny house, and I'm willing to bet that MSN is the home page.

We have to remember, Google is EXTREMELY good at sending traffic to the right places, for oddball search terms. So if MSN/Yahoo do a terrible job of handling those off-the-wall search terms, then it's not that the users aren't physically there... it's because your site isn't ranking for all the weird stuff people key in, which again... isn't your fault per say.

At least, thats the theory.

BS.... You're nailin' your neighbor. Just check her computer while you're over there.