Today's Bonkers Factoid: YouTube Now World's #2 Search Engine

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YouTube surpasses Yahoo as World’s #2 search engine

By Joshua Hill
Friday, October 17, 2008 00:01

Chicago (IL) - ComScore’s most U.S. search engine Rankings for August 2008 suggest that YouTube achieves a greater level of search traffic than Yahoo. Hidden in ComScore’s “Expanded Search Query Report.” Google attained the highest number of search queries in the month of August – 7.6 billion. But the second spot is now held by YouTube 2.6 billion. YouTube not only pushed Google beyond 10 billion searches for the first time, but also replaced Yahoo as the world’s second largest search service: Yahoo’s traffic dropped by 5% from July 2008 to 2.4 billion.

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Okay, that's just friggin' ridiculous.

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wow, google with the top two spots.

[thebobman]

Bonus Factoid:

August 2008 Searches:
MySpace: 585 million
Ebay: 434 million
Craigslist: 335 million
Facebook: 186 million

Look out Ebay; Craiglist is gunning for ya