From the daily archives: Thursday, June 1, 2006

The web company of the year

by Nimit on June 1, 2006 · 10 Comments · in Interesting, News Events

PCWorld magazine has rated Yahoo! as the web company of the year. They say:

“Yahoo has progressed far beyond being a mere search engine; it has emerged as the number-one online developer, on the strength of great revamps of Yahoo Mail (#30) and Yahoo Maps (#56), smart acquisitions of Web stars such as Del.icio.us (#93) and Flickr (#78), and development of the Yahoo 360 personalized Web spaces and of the Yahoo Music Engine (#73). Google may get a lot more attention, but Yahoo has been getting more things accomplished.“

The numbers beside the products are the ranking in PC World’s 100 best products list.

Also, if you have a Yahoo! mail account, then here is a trick to upgrade your account to be using the brand new mail application (the application is not officially available in the US yet): http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/001938.html

ALSO, here are some stats you may not have known (about industry market cap of web products):
WEBMAIL:

  • Yahoo! Mail – 42%
  • Hotmail – 23%
  • Myspace mail -19%
  • Gmail – 2%

MAPS:

  • Mapquest – 56%
  • Yahoo! Maps – 20%
  • Google Maps -7%
  • MSN Maps – 5%

SEARCH:

  • Google – 43%
  • Yahoo! Search – 28%
  • MSN Search -13%

FINANCE:

  • Yahoo! Finance – 35%
  • MSN Money – 13%
  • Google Finance – 0.3%

Yahoooooooooooooooooooooo!