I'm really surprised about Yahoo's market share. I've generally found it a lower quality search than both Bing and Google, and other than this deal I haven't heard anyone talk about it at all. I know a lot of people that have their home page set to MSN by default, but I haven't heard of Yahoo being someone's homepage in years.
What's everyone else's experience with this? Does anyone here use Yahoo, and if so, why?
I don't use Yahoo search, but my start-page is MyYahoo, and has been for eons. Because of this, a fair bit of the news I read is via Yahoo's aggregators.
Anyone who uses Yahoo mail gets Yahoo news, sport, weather etc. shoved in their face every time they check their mail. From there people are linked into a network of stuff including search.
And Yahoo mail by the way is massive - I can't remember the actual status but they are a multiple of any of their competitors in size and google is a tiny small fraction. I think people underestimate the importance of this just because email isn't seen as sexy these days - but it's eyeballs, and very sticky ones (sorry for image :-) ), they come back regularly again and again - people with lots of history in their Yahoo mail are pretty much never going to leave.
What's everyone else's experience with this? Does anyone here use Yahoo, and if so, why?