Second most popular search engine in the world is...?

 If you're going to say Yahoo, you'd be wrong. No, it's not MSN either, or the Ask train wreck. According to this report it's YouTube. (Link leads to report). YouTube fetched over 2.6 billion search queries that month, beating Yahoo's 2.4 billion—though Google itself still reigns supreme with 7.6 billion queries. This is going to win you a few bets I reckon!

Comments

[David Bradley]

Not sure how one can call Youtube a search engine, per se, it searches, sure, but it's not what is generally meant by the phrase. Anyway, a pedant would point out that Youtube is simply a subdivision of Google and therefore, Yahoo is still the #2. I can see more than a few boozy fights down the pub on this one ;-)

[David Bradley]

By the way, why do you have a captcha if you're moderating comments? Why not just use Akismet to catch the garbage and save commenters that extra step of solving the captcha, something I don't always remember to do, as I click away as soon as I hit post...

[Phil Bradley]

Well, YouTube has a database of content. It has a search engine that searches that database of content. I think that kinda makes it a search engine myself. And while it's owned by Google I think it's a discreet enough resource that it can be referenced in its own right - as many people do.

With regards the captcha - I've removed it for the time being, and I'll see how it goes. The product that you referred to seems to work particularly with Wordpress and I didn't see anything specific about using it with Typepad.