It is January 2001 - Yahoo receives ~627 million visits per month & Google is no where in the landscape.
Fast forward to June 2005 - Google & Yahoo at 6 billion monthly visits.
Why/How Google beat Yahoo?
I think the reason is Far sightedness. Basis points:
- Google takes over in June, 2005. "Google built a broad platform that extends across the entire web by focusing on simplicity and flexibility, while the complexity of Yahoo’s infrastructure may be the reason it ends up as a small part of another business." - https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/22/why-google-beat-yahoo-in-the-war-for-the-internet/. - Because of this google took over in June 2005.
- Yahoo took over again in Sep, 2008. But till then google had already bought youtube & android. Google finally takes over in July 2010, with launch of nexus devices.
Other interesting metrics:
- Youtube was created in Feb 2005, it took only 1 year to land up on 10 most visited sites(357M). Google bought it in Nov 2006(600M) for $1.6B.
- Google bought Android - July 2005(3B)for $50M, launched in 2008. Nexus is launched Jan, 2010.
- Facebook took over Myspace in Jan, 2008(1B)
- eBay was over Amazon in Oct, 1999 (70M), Amazon over eBay in Feb, 2008(900M)
In order of appearances:
Yahoo: 1996
Amazon: Jan, 1998(8M)
Ebay: March, 1999(25M)
Google: Jan, 2001 (60M)
Wikipedia: Feb, 2004(233M)
Myspace: Oct, 2004(286M)
Youtube: March, 2006 (350M)
Facebook: Jun, 2007 (500M)
Live.com: Jan, 2011(1B)
Twitter: Jan, 2012 (1.2B)
Instagram: Oct, 2013 (1.6B)
Oct 2019 Standings:
Google: 77B
Youtube: 27B
Facebook: 23B
Wiki: 5B
Twitter: 4B
Instagram: 4B
Yahoo: 3B
Image & Data source: https://youtu.be/2Uj1A9AguFs
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