[LINK] Pointless twitter, search engine wars and why didn't yahoo take off in Oz?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

> Twitter is used mostly for pointless babble, than as a conversational or
> 'pass-along value' medium. A study has revealed that around 40.55 percent of the
> total tweets can be classified as "pointless babble" or the "I am eating a
> sandwich now" tweets.
<http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Pointless_Babble_tops_Twitter_usage__-nid-60397.html>

ramin.com.au still gets more referrals from Webwombat than Bing and though Bing's
referrals are increasing, it has a long way to catchup with Google. (Yahoo's 
robot has the highest downloads.)
> Microsoft's search engine Bing continued to pick up market share in the U.S. for the second straight month in July, while Google and Yahoo experienced declines. Bing, which was launched in early June, racked up 8.9 percent of U.S. internet
> searches in July, up 0.5 percentage points from June. 
<http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Bing_shares_gain_against_Google_and_Yahoo_again-nid-60469.html>

My observation is that yahoo never made it in Oz - hotmail and now gmail has
been much more popular than yahoo. Any ideas why?
> Yahoo added almost 20 million users last year, growing its share of the market by 22 percent from 87.2 million users to 106.2 million users in June. Gmail with its climbing growth rate is on track to pass Windows Live Hotmail, which is the second most widely used email with 47.1 million users, up three percent from last year. In the July 2008 to July 2009 period, Gmail grew at a growth rate of 46 percent with 37 million unique visitors. On the other hand, during the same period AOL's monthly visitor total declined by 19 percent from 45.1 million to 36.4 million.
<http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Yahoo_Mail_still_king_Gmail_to_catch_up_soon-nid-60427.html>

Marghanita
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