An interesting thing about many of the properties owned by Yahoo is the tiny social elements built around each of these that helps Yahoo make its users engage better within its properties. Here are some stats that supplement this fact Yahoo Mail and IM Status Updates : 800 million per month Number of emails on [...]

Yahoo announced their new CEO in January this year; Carol Bartz. This was the salary offered to her: Cash Component : $1 million per annum Stock Options : $5 million Bonus : $4 if targets were met. I am not sure if she will get the bonus, and neither does she. Carol had supposedly already [...]

Yahoo BOSS is an open search API from Yahoo that lets anyone create a search engine using the Yahoo algorithm. How big is it? Search volumes in April : 900 million Estimated search volumes in July : 1.17 billion This makes Yahoo BOSS as big as, if not larger than Bing.

Here are a few interesting ‘did you know’ facts shared by Yahoo at Ad Tech,Singapore: Did you know Filipino internet users are twice more likely to click on mobile phone banner ads than those of automobiles? Did you know more Vietnamese internet users access instant messengers than web based email services monthly? Did you know [...]

According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance – 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo – 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money – 11 million unique visitors

Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market share in Japan for Yahoo : 65.9% Search Engine market share in Japan fo Google : 27.8% Google’s new deal with Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo will provide Google search to [...]

Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US Homepages Yahoo US Search Yahoo US Websearch Yahoo Answers Yahoo News Yahoo Messenger Yahoo Geocities Yahoo Messenger (insider) Yahoo Messenger (app) Yahoo US Geocities Yahoo Music

Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx. projected for November 2007) Yahoo mail : 250 million (approx. projected for November 2007) Growth rate of Gmail is 53.6% compared to Yahoo (3.21%) and Google is projected to [...]

No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to lose cumulatively $31.5 million for having accepted money to advertise gambling website between 1997 and June 2007. The individual fine imposed is as under Microsoft : $21 million Yahoo : [...]

In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health and Medical : 44.64% (Highest) Business and Finance : 17.04% (Least)