Yahoo! vs. Google

Dunno if you've read about it or anything, but Yahoo! recently stopped using Google to power it's search engine, and I just noticed Yahoo! has a new image search and the like, too. This makes me happy, 'cause I always liked Yahoo! search for web-related things but had to use Google for images, and now I can use Yahoo! for both, since there's little difference in the image area. I never liked the way Google threads some of it's results and whatnot. So yay.

Anyway, what do you think of the new Yahoo! search? Seems like a pretty brave thing to do, dropping Google, I must admit. I really hope they do well. It'll be good to have some real competition going in the search world, because then we'll hopefully end up with better quality. :)

*never has to Google again*

They're just as bad as each other.

I don't remember when the last time was that I used Yahoo for anything. I always use Google.

www.av.com

Google is the shiz.

Yahoo sucks because there are 331144645 things to do on the site. Google is simple.

Google plz.

There's a difference between the two?

google hands down. (what the hell does hands down mean anyway?)

Google Toolbar plz.

Let's compare the two.

Yahoo is to Google as the PS2 is to GameCube.

•Yahoo is a search engine, like Google.
•PS2 plays games, like GameCube.

•Yahoo has news.
•Google has news.

•Yahoo has image browser (now).
•Google has image browser.

•Yahoo has an instant messenger.
•Google doesn't.

•Yahoo has chatrooms. (which sucks)
•Google doesn't.

•Yahoo has fantasy sports.
•Google doesn't.

•PS2 plays CDs.
•GameCube doesn't.

•PS2 plays DVDs.
•GameCube doesn't.

=-o

I just like Google. 8-)

Yeah but google doesn't cost £80

Google is my homepage. It's got all and exactly what I need. I use the searching and the image searching almost daily, and occasionaly use the news, directory, and language tools.

I can never find anything on the Yahoo page. I prefer google. Smaller, more powerful.

Oh yeah, with the PS2/GC comparison, you could also note: Google more powerful than Yahoo, Gamecube more powerful than PS2.

BTW I'm a GC fan ;)

Well that depends. The ps2 can mush around alot more polys than the gamecube. But the gamecube as good special effects and anti-aliasing.

Google also carries a Usenet archive, and doesn't look like a somethingsomethingsomething on crack.

I use google toolbar.

I use Yahoo out of habit, but I guess whenever I type keywords into the address bar of Firefox it does a Google search, so I use them both just as much. As long as I find what I'm looking for I don't care too much how I get there.

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Originally posted by Yamaneko
Yahoo sucks because there are 331144645 things to do on the site. Google is simple.

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yup and the only thing I use it for is img hosting.

I'll always use google. It's simpler.

I use Yahoo. It's sexier

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Originally posted by Lindz
www.av.com

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That looks like an uncouth version of Google. Speaking of Google, it's Google all the way for me. I've been using it since 7th grade(I'm not a sophomore in HS) and I won't stop now.

I guess I'll take a look at Yahoo and see if it searches better than Google does :p I changed to Google originally because it tended to give more accurate/useful results quickly, an not because of the frilly stuff like image search etc. :p

http://www.yahoogle.com

Well, Google recently added like 1.3 billion more websites to it's search database to compete with Yahoo! and Microsoft. But Google is still king, but I still find myself using Yahoo, just because I'm use to it.

I use Yahoo for other things.

Google is best for searching. Yahoo is good for everything else.

Gotta say, I haven't used Yahoo since 1996. Google is my bitch.

I don't like google because they spell it wrong and I always type in www.googol.com and end up somewhere else. I always liked altavista, but it doesn't usually have as good search results. Yahoo is good for messenger and sports and games, but I don't use them to search.

Did Bill Gates try to buy Google?

Google for me. I hate bells and whistles.

Google is an internet search engine, sporting what may be the best searching algorithm yet. It doesn't bother with all the extra garbage most people don't need, and just cuts straight to the searching. *nod*

Yahoo is just fine for webhosting, e-mail, and usergroups, but that's about it. Sure, it has a lot of junk, but I'll never use it. I have no need for it. Y!Messenger? Pfft, I know more people on AIM, and use Trillian anyway. Y!Mail? I have POP3 through my webhost. Usergroups? Used 'em for a while, but they aren't worth it in the end. Y!Games? Flash games are much more fun. Shall I go on?

Oh, and while we're on the subject of google-ish search engines... http://www.cthuugle.com/

>>> I use both..

*reads all the posts*

Wow. I just don't like Google because, well, the threaded view it uses sucks.

Regarding the amount of pages, I can't be bothered finding anything accurate, but you've go to give it to Yahoo! for stepping into the open after relying on Google for so long. They must have be bloody confident that they can compete, so I assume they'll hang in there with Google in terms of pages, given a couple of months.

I used to use yahoo to search for porn, cuz no one else in my family used yahoo they all used google, so they wouldn't discover my crime.

Google, Yahoo screwed me over.

Let us create a hybrid: Yahoogle.

Didn't meat puppet post a link to yahoogle a few posts up?

I don't read entire threads. What am I, a moderator? Pfft.

Obviously Meat Puppet is a much better human being than any of you others.

Jeeves got screwed.

The only thing I use yahoo for is to play pool.