One of our readers, Marc Jones, asked me to update a blog post that I wrote back on March 19, 2007, entitled, "Yahoo! Finance Market Share 52 times Bigger than Google Finance." Well, 'tis the season.
So, Marc, here's an update from Matt Tatham of Hitwise:
Business Information Sites Nov-08
Rank Website Domain Market Share
1 Yahoo! Finance finance.yahoo.com 29.63%
2 MSN Money moneycentral.msn.com 10.24%
3 CNN Money money.cnn.com 9.02%
4 Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com 3.81%
5 Market Watch www.marketwatch.com 3.44%
6 Reuters www.reuters.com 3.11%
7 Internal Revenue Service www.irs.gov 2.32%
8 Google Finance finance.google.com 2.31%
9 The Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com 2.29%
10 CNBC.com www.cnbc.com 2.26%
So, Yahoo! Finance is the leader of the pack -- by almost a three-to-one margin over MSN Money, which is in second place. But Yahoo! Finance is no longer 52 times bigger than Google Finance. Today, it is "merely" 12.8 times bigger.
Okay, that's still a "humongous" lead. (Humongous is a term that we bloggers use to mean extremely huge. We don't get to use it that often when talking about someone who competes with Google. But, we are talking about Google Finance and not Google.)
So, let me thank Marc for asking the question and thank Matt for answering it. And for all of you who are watching your 401K plans become 201K plans, may I suggest that you visit some of the top business information sites to see if one provides you with better insights than the others. And let me know what you find.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Yahoo! Plays The Privacy Card
Google has pummeled Yahoo! in the search market, but the struggling Web portal could take the lead in the race to know the least about its users.
Yahoo! announced Wednesday that it would begin deleting identifying details from the information it collects from Web surfers just three months after the data are collected. The new policy cuts the time that Yahoo! retains the identifying data of its search engine users by 10 months, and expands that data-privacy umbrella to the company's other online services, such as its media sites and e-mail.
More important, it trumps Google's own bid to reassure users of their privacy: In September, the search giant cut its data retention period from 18 months to nine months.
"We're really hoping to put a stake in the ground and take this issue, which has been the subject of debate for a long time, off the table altogether," says Yahoo!'s Vice President of Policy Anne Toth.
The race to cut data-retention times, however, may be largely a marketing tactic, according to some privacy advocates. More important, they say, is how identifying details are stripped from data after that time period. Google and Yahoo! both remove only the last group of eight numbers from users' IP addresses, a tactic that Jeff Chester, the director of the Center for Digital Democracy, calls "pseudo-anonymization." Given enough time, the data could still be used to piece together the identity of users, he argues.
"This claim that Yahoo! has taken a leading position in terms of privacy still needs to be examined," he says. "Yahoo! and other companies should be completely destroying these records. Even with partial anonymity there's always the danger that sensitive information could fall into the wrong hands."
Toth argues that the partially-anonymized remnants of Yahoo!'s data are only used for finding overall patterns in the company's user activity, not tracking individuals. But Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, argues that a better standard for the details of anonymization is needed. "I think this is progress," he says. "But we need provable anonymity, a technique that's public and can be examined and discussed."
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Yahoo! announced Wednesday that it would begin deleting identifying details from the information it collects from Web surfers just three months after the data are collected. The new policy cuts the time that Yahoo! retains the identifying data of its search engine users by 10 months, and expands that data-privacy umbrella to the company's other online services, such as its media sites and e-mail.
More important, it trumps Google's own bid to reassure users of their privacy: In September, the search giant cut its data retention period from 18 months to nine months.
"We're really hoping to put a stake in the ground and take this issue, which has been the subject of debate for a long time, off the table altogether," says Yahoo!'s Vice President of Policy Anne Toth.
The race to cut data-retention times, however, may be largely a marketing tactic, according to some privacy advocates. More important, they say, is how identifying details are stripped from data after that time period. Google and Yahoo! both remove only the last group of eight numbers from users' IP addresses, a tactic that Jeff Chester, the director of the Center for Digital Democracy, calls "pseudo-anonymization." Given enough time, the data could still be used to piece together the identity of users, he argues.
"This claim that Yahoo! has taken a leading position in terms of privacy still needs to be examined," he says. "Yahoo! and other companies should be completely destroying these records. Even with partial anonymity there's always the danger that sensitive information could fall into the wrong hands."
Toth argues that the partially-anonymized remnants of Yahoo!'s data are only used for finding overall patterns in the company's user activity, not tracking individuals. But Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, argues that a better standard for the details of anonymization is needed. "I think this is progress," he says. "But we need provable anonymity, a technique that's public and can be examined and discussed."
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SEO For Yahoo Small Business - 3 Tips For Productive SEO Strategy
SEO is one of the biggest phenomena to hit the world of online business in some time. It seems that many people who want to own a small business fail to realize how this single aspect of business can make or break you. If you use SEO for Yahoo small business then you can truly see a turn in profit that will keep you ahead of your competitors. You must implement some form of search engine optimization in order to ensure the profitability of your online business.
There are three things that can help you in your quest to establish a viable search engine presence.
1. Write articles an submit them to EzineArticles. You can also submit these articles to other directories, but this is by far the best in all market research that has been conducted. The great things about writing articles is that it creates high quality backlinks to your website, which will in turn produce better search engine rankings.
2. If you want to use SEO for Yahoo small business effectively, you will want to do some link exchanges with other websites in your niche. This is a vital aspect because the more links you exchange the more people will be visiting your website. If you have a great product or service to offer then this will results in a large amount of money going into your pocket. In addition, submit your website to social bookmarking sites such as Digg. This is in tune with the linking strategies, and will also improve your search engine rankings.
3. Make sure that your website is keyword rich for high traffic keywords in your niche. This means you will want to do some keyword research to make sure you are targeting keywords that have a lot of daily searches. You can do this easily by going to Google and typing in keyword tool. Google offers a free tool, and so does Wordtracker. These are both excellent tools to use and will give you an accurate forecast of the demand for a particular keyword.
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There are three things that can help you in your quest to establish a viable search engine presence.
1. Write articles an submit them to EzineArticles. You can also submit these articles to other directories, but this is by far the best in all market research that has been conducted. The great things about writing articles is that it creates high quality backlinks to your website, which will in turn produce better search engine rankings.
2. If you want to use SEO for Yahoo small business effectively, you will want to do some link exchanges with other websites in your niche. This is a vital aspect because the more links you exchange the more people will be visiting your website. If you have a great product or service to offer then this will results in a large amount of money going into your pocket. In addition, submit your website to social bookmarking sites such as Digg. This is in tune with the linking strategies, and will also improve your search engine rankings.
3. Make sure that your website is keyword rich for high traffic keywords in your niche. This means you will want to do some keyword research to make sure you are targeting keywords that have a lot of daily searches. You can do this easily by going to Google and typing in keyword tool. Google offers a free tool, and so does Wordtracker. These are both excellent tools to use and will give you an accurate forecast of the demand for a particular keyword.
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