Hi Cicero, I’ve found Yahoo to be very good .. made major improvements. I’ve found things there that I couldn’t on Google.
Google started with Yahoo’s database, so many of the searches are inherently the same.
Do and search on both, and you’ll see what I mean.
Google makes it’s money on traffic, if half the US were to ban Google, they would lose sponsored advertisers etc.
Search engines really are simplistic. Most novice programmers can create them in matter of a few days or less with many features.
It’s just that Google has been majorly hyped in the movies over the years.
I have yet to find something on Google i couldn’t find with Yahoo.
Thanks. My daughter seems to have a Yahoo toolbar on her computer, and it seemed to work perfectly well. But isn’t Yahoo also liberal?
I don’t use the toolbar on my computer, but the IE7 Search window, which gives you a choice of what provider you want to use. I think that keeps the footprint smaller and uses less memory.
It isn’t about who has the better search engine. It is about how many pages the search engine has indexed. Google leads in this category. Exalead is another great search engine. Less than .05 % of the entire web is indexed for search engines to find them. In order for ANY search engine to return the result of John’s Homepage, it first needs to index that page. Right now the shared results from exact (very similar) searches on the 3 main search engines return a 12% match for two engines and a .04 % match for all three. Meaning if I searched for something on Google, around 12% of the web pages returned as matches would be found using the same search in LIVE or Yahoo. Around 4% of the same pages would be found on all three search engines using the same search criteria. This is not a science and the results vary depending on what time of the day the searches are done.