Yeah, that's an interesting one. IMO older people and those who are less tech savvy use yahoo.
It explains why people find for a lot of niches yahoo converts atrociously and others find areas where google isn't so hot yahoo is amazing.
It also explains why you're seeing mostly yahoo. The people who need help with computer issues are not tech savvy.
actually, age isnt even a factor, the majority I am talking about are younger people.
In my opinion, I think it has to do with yahoo's homepage and their IM and they do advertize much more on tv and radio then google does.
I personally believe the majority of consumers use yahoo and msn.
after all almost all systems comes with msn as the homepage on IE and God knows how many people never even install FF or chrome.
It can not be just me and the people I have come across, given what I have seen over the years, one can assume yahoo and msn are the leading homepages by reg consumers.
Would be nice for a computer tec or geeksquad guy to give their two cents on this.
edit, you are correct though, with the less tech people.
In all reality, the majority of those who have computers dont even know how to copy/paste
well in my experiences they dont.
and tons of those people have no clue that they even change their homepage, let alone get rid of the toolbars and install other browsers.
edit again
Yah know, when you think about it, Microsoft is no better the google with their need to force their products on consumers, after all w/o IE, one can not even update their computers.
I know thats off topic, but it true