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IAR: Yahoo! CEO: Usage Up "Dramatically"

WSJ.com: Yahoo Sees Surge in Usage, Led by Its Active Members (paid subscription required)

The Journal reports:

Internet giant Yahoo Inc. said its usage and number of users rose "dramatically" in 2002, with the fastest growth seen among those users apt to spend the most money on Yahoo services….

At the end of the third quarter, Yahoo had attracted 201 million "unique users," or individual visitors, to its site, up 14% from the third quarter of 2001, according to the company. But the growth was much faster among users that Yahoo is more likely to turn into paying customers; users who have registered with Yahoo and use its site regularly rose 37% to 93 million. Yahoo said it had 1.55 million paying customers at the end of September, nearly seven times the previous year's level.