Most Popular Finance Website

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

Yahoo vs. Google in Japan

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 48 million NTT DoCoMo customers.

Top Yahoo subsites in 2007

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

Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL

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 overtake Yahoo by 2010.

Is Advertising Gambling sites legal?

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 : $7.5 million
Google : $3 million

Demographics of the Searchers

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)

Search Engine market shares for the American market

For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows:

Google (55%)
Yahoo (19%)
Microsoft (14%)
AOL (4%)
Ask (3%)

How is Yahoo Messenger faring against its competitors?

Yahoo Messenger is soon set to topple AOL’s AIM as the leading IM service in the US

AIM
User base in US: 30.2 million
Growth past year: 2%

Yahoo Messenger
User base in US: 27.7 million
Growth past year (US): 19%
Worldwide user base: 94.3 million
Growth past year (world): 30%

World Leader in Instant Messenging: Windows Live
Leader in American Market: AIM

Yahoo’s operations in China - Through Alibaba

Yahoo owns 39% stake in local ecommerce site, Alibaba.com. The money invested was $1.4 billion. The value of the investment is now $3.4 billion. Alibaba has now gone public at the HongKong stock exchange. 17% of its stake was sold in 858.9 million shares, each at a value of $1.75. Alibaba has hence raised $1.5 billion through going public.