Yahoo BOSS to Push Around Bing

August 20, 2009

Quite a headline this: “Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing”. Eric Schonfeld reported that Yahoo’s Build Your Own Search engine racked up:

At 30 million queries a day, that comes out to about 900 million queries a month, which would make Yahoo BOSS the fourth largest search engine in the U.S. with about a 6 percent share. That is just below the 9 percent share (and 1.2 billion queries a month) comScore estimates for Bing.

The article provides data galore and a number of useful links. My question: “With this type of success how will Yahoo leverage this advantage?” If the Microsoft Yahoo deal is approved, will BOSS push Bing around or will Microsoft shunt BOSS aside with a lateral arabesque?

Stephen Arnold, August 21, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo

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2 Responses to “Yahoo BOSS to Push Around Bing”

Ramana Rao on August 20th, 2009 9:11 am

good question, and I love to hear the answer too

“lateral arabesque” … haven’t heard that one for a while. That’s what we used to call it when a bigco VP got shoved aside after not achieving into an apparently equiv level role
Watch that Request Length | BOSS Hacks - an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS blog on December 14th, 2009 7:37 pm

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.