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11-12-2004, 03:44 AM
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is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
somehow everyone has jumped on the google bandwagon and you hear people talk about "googling" on radio, tv, etc all the time.
i'm from the "old school" and i still always use yahoo, tell me why i'm dumb please. i use yahoo for my sports/news/etc so its not likely that all switch unless there really is a good reason. 
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11-12-2004, 03:50 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
Isn't Yahoo powered by Google now?
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11-12-2004, 03:55 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
google is the "IN" thing now, like, duh [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
Actually ive heard google powers yahoo as well so i dont think you have any reason to switch. I use yahoo for fantasy sports and what not but use google for searching the web.
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11-12-2004, 04:05 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
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google is the "IN" thing now, like, duh [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] ah-ha! I KNEW it. One day I'll be cool enough to use google.
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11-12-2004, 05:32 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
Yahoo was never "old school".
Even before google, there were far better search engines than Yahoo like altavista, metacrawler and hotbot (this wasn't even porn). Yahoo used to completely suck. I'll try now. OK, so far, takes slightly longer to load than google because of all the frills on the main page. I searched for my name and it was reasonably fast, produced similar results to google. So it seems OK.
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11-12-2004, 07:19 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
At one time google had a superior search algorithm to yahoo. Which made it more likely to find what you were searching for using google. I do not know if this is still the case.
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11-12-2004, 07:34 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
"Isn't Yahoo powered by Google now? "
No. For a while it was powered by AltaVista. Then it switched to Google, which is what you're thinking of. But they broke up acrimoniously. Now it has its own search engine, I believe.
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11-12-2004, 07:54 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
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I do not know if this is still the case. [/ QUOTE ] IMO, still the case. Microsoft will be revealing a beta search powered by Yahoo!, but in 2005 they will have their own homebrewed version.
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11-12-2004, 08:29 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
I use Google because I think the Google toolbar is more convinient than anything else. I really don't care which search engine it goes through but I like not having to go to a different site to search.
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11-12-2004, 08:45 AM
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Re: is searching with google really that much better than yahoo?
Here's the MSN beta site: http://beta.search.msn.com/
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