Search services go global.
Yahoo announced that its sites serving France, Germany, and the U.K. and Ireland, were collectively serving an average of 1 million page views per day, while its Japanese site had topped 2 million page views per day. Even though I am a CNET NEWS.COM columnist, I feel compelled to call out the company's consumer-oriented online service as a prime example of how the quarter was so centered on the mass market. Snap Online could pan out as an important catalyst in broadening consumer usage of the Internet. Actually, I think it's going to be a combination of both the corporate sector and the consumer sector. I think we will see content and applications blended together to address different market sectors.