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Google News and Yahoo News are the two largest news aggregators (and news search engines) in the world. Both Google and Yahoo earn their money mainly through advertising, and these websites have so much traffic and so many page views that any downtime they have will be very expensive since it becomes the equivalent of lost advertising revenue.
First things first, the headline of this post is of course not referring to the reliability of the news items or the searches, but of the websites themselves. When looking at the availability of these websites from January through September of 2007, Yahoo News has had more than twice the downtime of Google News.
Downtime in minutes, January – September 2007
|
news.google.com |
news.yahoo.com |
| January |
0 |
10 |
| February |
75 |
39 |
| March |
6 |
12 |
| April |
1 |
13 |
| May |
2 |
54 |
| June |
2 |
40 |
| July |
0 |
10 |
| August |
0 |
0 |
| September |
1 |
8 |
| TOTAL: |
87 |
186 |
Source: Pingdom
In this case, the amount of downtime (1 hour and 27 minutes for Google News and 3 hours and 6 minutes for Yahoo News) is not so large that it would be very bothersome to individual website visitors, but it should be all the more bothersome to Google and Yahoo because of lost advertising exposure.
Find out more:
Downtime report page for Google News.
Downtime report page for Yahoo News.
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Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.
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There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.
But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.
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