According to two Hitwise blog post analyzing the referrers to Yahoo and MSN, they are getting more hits sent from Google than they are getting from their own domain.
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The following chart shows the share of upstream visits to each of those 20 properties from search.yahoo.com and www.google.com. Most properties receive more traffic from Google than from Yahoo!
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Google accounted for 4.39% of upstream visits to these MSN properties compared to 1.25% from MSN Search and Live and 1.10% from Yahoo! Search.
If there was even a remote chance of Google taking those domains out of the Google organic search, they would stand to lose a substantial amount of traffic |
I think the title of this post is inaccurate (or at least it's not a conclusion of the article) . "Most [Yahoo] properties receive more traffic from Google than from Yahoo! Search" is more accurate. This is pretty obvious if you look at Google's market share in the US (comScore/June '08: Google-61.5%, Yahoo-20.9%). |
