I've been a lifelong yahoo user. I've been playing fantasy sports on their since the late 90s, and I will only use yahoo box scores.
I also have Yahoo as my home page and Yahoo Sports as my go to page (well, used to be ESPN but I got annoyed by all the flash ads) By Search wise, it's definitely Google for me. Mainly because I do a lot of obscure searches that Yahoo just can't seem to have bothered to catalog
Maybe I can get you on here, they just fired my 2nd boss since I've been here. It's tax season and I still have enough time to pay my bills, browse the net, and make my fair share of posts on here. During the down time I play a lot of Texas Hold 'em. Does it get any better? Oh, and after tax season I'll be looking for a new job. Pugs
In terms of content I'd have to agree with Kelly Dwyer and What, yahoo does have a significantly better layout and format, with tons of information, topics and links all displayed in one page. Though to be fair to google, its an approach that is the very opposite of its minimalistic design/structure, so its not exactly surprising. I especially am a fan of the sliding news topics on the front page, always good for an interesting topic or two that may have missed my attention. And yahoo sports is my second most visited comprehensive sports site. As for searching? I agree with everyone else who prefers the google search engine. It just seem so much more accurate and streamlined, than yahoo's (though admittedly i rarely use yahoo to search since the advent of google). When i do accidently use yahoo to search, the difference is IMO like that of using internet explorer vs firefox or firefox vs chrome. This seems to be an extremely overdramatic and sarcastic response to his simple observation and curiosity regarding why people search for sites they already knew. Simple answer to that of course is, they like myself, dont often recall the exact address, so often time, i simply googe "subject" and wiki, like someone earlier suggested.
Same here. I've had one since 1995, I think. My Yahoo! account is one that contains my last name and my first initial. Something not a lot of people can get now since there are so many of those accounts already. Lots of features that are tied to my account are there since the 90's, like fantasy sports, contacts, and messenger stuff. There are some things that Yahoo! does better than Google, but I don't think "searching" is one of them.
Let me just throw this out there for discussion. As far as the searching part, doesn't google sell key words to the highest bidder, and if that is the case, then how do you distinguish between what is or isn't a quality search. Please understand blah, I'm not attacking you or your post, I'm just asking the question. Also, isn't it the responsibility of the website designer to make their site yahoo friendly.
I like Yahoo because he was really good in "Young Einstein," so that guy is alright with me (thumbs up).
you want all the widgets on your search page. use www.google.com/ig as your homepage. It's your search page with customizable widgets like yahoo's. You can add/remove in settings. I'm sure there's a Netflix one, as well as a ton of other crap that you want
I like yahoo, go to it for news and sports, but I like the search and stocks pages of google much more.
Wow, looking at this thread... I wonder how many of you really know your internet... Yahoo is not just a search engine after the 90s... they even abandoned their own search engine business and department recently, it's all now Microsoft Bing. Yahoo is Web Portal, best served as homepage with all the information including news and hot links in it. You can even customize yahoo to your own liking with your own links and information. While Google is still focus on search engine business although they now also have other services. Google still stay in their comfort zone providing the minimalistic approach with the best search result. Your argument might make sense during the 90s, now it's like comparing apple to orange, folks.
Yeah you know your internet so much more huh? Yahoo still does plenty of work on searches and they are competing against Google. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/24/yahoo.future.wired/ That's today's news...
I don't think they sell the keywords. There's a New York Times article about how they rank their pages. It had something to do with JC Penny and how they were rigging the system. Afterwards they got dinged by Google and their search ranking dropped down pretty bad. Yahoo! and Bing probably do the same. There's another article somewhere talking about how Bing has been copying Google search results. I don't really know anyone who uses Yahoo search any more. Almost like finding someone who still has an @AOL.com email address. Content wise I like Yahoo but searchwise I'd still go with Google. Yahoo search is kind of a mess, the results page is all cluttery.
yahoo sports is my second most visited website. I don't use their search. I like Google's minimalist approach. Hated it when they bingified the page for a bit there. I use msn as my homepage -- but have been growing dissatisfied with it lately as they've been masking bing searches as links in an effort to artificially boosts bing's stats. But to search -- I'll go to Google even if I'm already on Yahoo, or msn -- just because the layout appeals to me more. I really don't know how the quality of the results varies -- they all seem fine and flawed in the same way.
I use yahoo, for everything but for searching, I have my primary mail since late 90s with yahoo, yahoo sports is great, I like it, and I like the top stories in the front page of yahoo. as a search engine, I agree that Google is better, have better results with google, and that thing that ends your words is good.
