September 3, 2009
good grief, it looks like it’s Yahoo Mail’s turn to go down in flames: I’m sure they will have service restored soon. But it’s particularly more galling given that 1. I snarkily defended Yahoo Mail during the gmail outage (oh, karma!) and 2. unlike gmail, I’m a paying customer for Yahoo’s Plus service (no ads, [...]
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February 23, 2008
Fascinating numbers via Bernard Lunn at RWW about the true market share threat to Google of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger: Email is 49% of Impressions. Portals and Search Engines is 10% by contrast. This is some free data from Nielsen-Netratings. click on Top Site Genres. 56% is Microsoft and Yahoo combined market share of webmail. Gmail [...]
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