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| 2008/2/16-21 [Academia/UCLA, Academia/StanfUrd] UID:49170 Activity:moderate |
2/16 Snobs use google, normal people use yahoo:
http://gizmodo.com/357353/poor-people-use-yahoo-richies-use-google
\_ http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/02/the_wealthy_use.html
\_ http://preview.tinyurl.com/23mjhs (informationweek.com)
\_ I know a few conservatives who hate Google (liberal company)
and use Yahoo as the less liberal alternative.
\_ I don't know anyone who uses Yahoo search. I know Yahoo
employees. I know zillionaires. I know poor people. I know
people who are a few dollars from living in their car.
They all use Google Search.
\_ In another news, smart people prefer the Bay Area, and dumb
people are stuck in Los Angeles.
\_ True story. -- ilyas
\_ URL to support your claim?
\_ True as in Berkeley/Stanford rejects go to UCLA, UCI
UCSD, and (laugh) UCR?
\_ Stanford rejects go to Cal. Let's be honest here.
\_ I always thought that the system was that the
rich kids Stanford rejects go to USC, the asian
kids Cal rejects go to UCLA, Davis rejects end
up at UCI/UCR and the asian kids with cool
parents go to UCSD.
\_ Stanford kids are actually smarter than USC
kids. It's more like Stanford rejects go to
the east cast, Cal rejects go to UCLA, Asian
kids who couldn't make it to any of the above
go to UCI or San Diego, and all the rejects
who don't want to go to CSUs go to Riverside,
Santa Barbara, or Santa Cruz. In terms of
hierarchy:
UCB > UCLA > (UCD|UCI|UCSD) > UCSB > UCSC > UCR
UCSD for some reason attracts a lot of Republican/
conservative and UCR attracts a lot of dumb asses
\_ San Diego is a conservative area relative to the
rest of the state.
\_ When I applied to CS grad school in 1993, I got rejected
by Cal but accepted by $tanfurd.
\_ You end up going to Stanford?
\_ No, I ended up getting a job.
\_ Grad school is something else entirely. I was
talking about undergrad.
\_ Another true story. -- ilyas
\_ Ilyas is a dumb reject.
\_ Another true story. -- !ilyas
\_ Yup. -- ilyas
\_ Ilyas loves it when people sign
his name. Yup. -- ilyas
his name. Yup.
\_ No, that was actually me. -- ilyas
\_ But not me. -- !ilyas |
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| gizmodo.com/357353/poor-people-use-yahoo-richies-use-google But online marketing firm Hitwise has published a socioeconomic demographic rundown of Yahoo and Google users. And, without giving too much away, you might not want to tell your friends that you still use Yahoo (or that your Armani suit is a knock off). According to Hitwise data and this Lifestyle Quadrant Analysis, while lots of people are using Yahoo search (those are the dots in the upper left), groups that have spent more that $500 or more online tend to use Google (those are the dots in the lower right, the bigger dots designate $500+ spenders). So while Yahoo has the "struggling societies" market cornered, Google is fairly pleased with their "affluent suburbia" and "upscale America" user base. So what do you think of the stats, are you aptly represented? Young people are more likely to use Google, but that doesn't necessarily make them moneybags. Ah, Altavista, I remember using that back in the day, same with Yahoo. Then again I never really used Yahoo, I used Altavista or Webcrawler rather than Yahoo. I mean I've spent more than 500 online, and that doesn't make my yearly income 75,000 yearly. But we all know iPods are not the best PMP, so that either makes rich people ignorant or stupid. Yahoo is a all-in-one portal and Google is a search engine with a crappy email client. I use both Yahoo and Google for different things and glad tha both exist. JohnT: hey man, I know how you feel with the spam, it's ridiculous. I get about 100 messages a day from people wanted ME to help them get money out of the country! yahoo portal page, I almost exclusively use google search and I'm still one of those people who is a hardcore Outlook user. I buy wherever I want, I have a facebook and live spaces page and a wordpress blog. I guess what I'm suggesting is I use different resources for different activities. To use this metric is so simple minded as to be useless ... except for garnering some attention that might translate into revenues at some point. Google just has so much content in such an easy to use portal. It is hard to get around their non obtrusive ad system, great uptime, and cornerstone search technology. |
| www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/02/the_wealthy_use.html Hitwise recently performed some analysis of the traffic patterns on the Google and Yahoo search engines. Google users tended to be older and spend more money online. Yahoo users, conversely, were often younger and spent less money online. decided to correlate some findings regarding search engine use, age, and affluence. The results aren't terribly surprising, but bring up some interesting questions. First, her data: "I cross checked this data against our Lifestyle data to be sure that we weren't missing the kids of these householders. Our Lifestyle data confirms that the groups that are highly indexed on Google tend to be older (55+) and the groups highly indexed on Yahoo! I mentioned this to my husband and he asked if the Google users spend more online. Good question (he seems to think young people have no money)!... com relative to the online population -- are those that are among the most likely to have spent more than $500 online. This indicates that Google users are more likely to be big online spenders. Why is it that Google users are likely to be older and spend more and the opposite for Yahoo? The result Hopkins finds of highly-indexed Google users being 55+ seems odd to me. My parents fall into that age bracket and hardly use the Internet for more than the most casual searches. would Microsoft want to buy a company that caters to teenagers? Granted, the 18-34 advertising bracket is highly coveted, as younger people are falling into the purchasing patterns they will likely follow for the rest of their lives. But older people, 34-54, generally have more disposable income. CMP Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. |
| preview.tinyurl.com/23mjhs -> www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/02/the_wealthy_use.html Hitwise recently performed some analysis of the traffic patterns on the Google and Yahoo search engines. Google users tended to be older and spend more money online. Yahoo users, conversely, were often younger and spent less money online. decided to correlate some findings regarding search engine use, age, and affluence. The results aren't terribly surprising, but bring up some interesting questions. First, her data: "I cross checked this data against our Lifestyle data to be sure that we weren't missing the kids of these householders. Our Lifestyle data confirms that the groups that are highly indexed on Google tend to be older (55+) and the groups highly indexed on Yahoo! I mentioned this to my husband and he asked if the Google users spend more online. Good question (he seems to think young people have no money)!... com relative to the online population -- are those that are among the most likely to have spent more than $500 online. This indicates that Google users are more likely to be big online spenders. Why is it that Google users are likely to be older and spend more and the opposite for Yahoo? The result Hopkins finds of highly-indexed Google users being 55+ seems odd to me. My parents fall into that age bracket and hardly use the Internet for more than the most casual searches. would Microsoft want to buy a company that caters to teenagers? Granted, the 18-34 advertising bracket is highly coveted, as younger people are falling into the purchasing patterns they will likely follow for the rest of their lives. But older people, 34-54, generally have more disposable income. CMP Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. |