Yahoo more popular than sex, says Google

THE MOST popular search item on Google is no longer 'sex' but the rival search engine Yahoo.

According to the Daily Domainer, Yahoo suffers the same problem from users who insist on typing the name of their rivals in their search engines, however in Google's case it seems strange that it is the top search.

Stan Schroeder of Frantic Industries says that it is all down to the fact that users have stopped typing in domain names. Instead what they do is type the name of the site they want to go to in Google and click on the search result.

This would explain why the top 1000 searches are the likes of bebo, ebay, yahoo, amazon, myspace, and facebook.

Another reason, he suggests, is that if you type the word yahoo without the .com extension into the Firefox address bar, it actually performs a Google search and redirects the user to the top search result.

The Daily Domainer thinks that some are using this shortcut intentionally, while others know nothing about domains and believe that this is the way the Internet is supposed to work.

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