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Google Vs. Yahoo: When We Last Met...

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the return-of-the-fisher-king dept.

I-R-Baboon writes "The New York Times has this article on the battle between the once #1 Yahoo and the current champion and #1 Google. Yahoo wants it's throne back and is ready to throw the gloves off and mix it up with Google. But can the uncluttering of their page, toning down the ads, and using some features not currently offered on Google give them their title back?" Of course, Yahoo! will have to get in line behind Microsoft as well.

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  1. Kah Kha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    will google still be the top result for "search engine?"

    1. Re:Kah Kha by teko_teko · · Score: 5, Funny

      #1 result for "search engine" in google: google.com
      #2: yahoo.com

      #1 result for "search engine" in yahoo: google.com
      #2: yahoo.com

    2. Re:Kah Kha by spot35 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Google search for "The Worst Search Engine" comes back with MSN as the third entry. A couple of days back it was the first entry.

  2. It's going to be tough... by caffeinex36 · · Score: 5, Funny

    When's the last time you heard someone say "Yahoo! it!" as apposed to "Google It!"

    -Rob

    1. Re:It's going to be tough... by LordKronos · · Score: 2, Funny

      Do You Yahoo!?

  3. ironic by nazh · · Score: 2, Funny

    isn't it a bit ironic that the first ad that pops-up in that article is for Yahoo!

  4. Yahoo v. Google by peterjhill2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before god created google, there was Yahoo!, and that wasn't too bad. Man was able to find interesting pages by drilling down through skillfully maintained categorical organization. Than Man created the computer and said, screw this, I can write a program that can do all this for me, leaving more time for Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters. Man said, I shall call my invention Google. In most portions of the Galaxy, Google has largely supplainted the more pedestrian Encyclopedia Yahoo!. In cases where there is a descrincy between the real world and Google, the fault lies in the real world.

  5. Google is SO ingrained! by DJPenguin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought I'd go and check out the new yahoo site. So I went and typed in www.google.com - and of course ended up at google.

    For a second there I thought yahoo had REALLY become google!

    James

  6. Re:Ads. by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Funny

    >First of all, Google does not have ADS as far as I know.

    Oh man, lets at least pretend text ads work. Anything to keep the gifs and flash away.

    Try:

    "Oh yes, text ads are great! I click on them all the time!"

  7. hehehe by jcp797 · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=the+best+sear ch+engine

  8. Re:pah, yahoo.com is totally useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's what you get when you use a Java-based search engine front end! 12MB for a search tool. Shameful. I remember when Google was clever and fast.

  9. Re:Ads. by FyRE666 · · Score: 0, Funny

    Not sure if it'll help you, but I just added the yimg* domain to my local DNS, pointed at 127.0.0.1 - pages load faster, and no ads ;-)

    --
    Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
  10. Its already been on Buffy by Snaller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Willow: Have you googled her yet?

    Xander: Willow! She's only 17!

    --
    If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
  11. ON the other hand, What happens now is, by Brendor · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you search for an address in Yahoo, it doesn't give a link to a map of that address. Google does

    Actuallly funny considering that if you google for an address, google gives you a link to Yahoo Maps where you can view the map.

  12. Re:pah, yahoo.com is totally useless by arvindn · · Score: 2, Funny
    Thank you for your helpful tips on using wc. However, by logo I mean the image, which, if you've noticed, is a part of the google home page.

    $ wc logo.gif #see how quickly I learn :)
    59 292 8558 logo.gif

    So you see, its 8.5KB as I claimed. And 292 words and 59 lines, if that means anything to you. I hope you will not take me to task because I counted a KB as 1000 bytes instead of 1024.

  13. I just love this by bigberk · · Score: 4, Funny

    After so many years of 'web programming' advancement, the big guys are coming around full circle and striving to simplify the appearance of their web sites.

    "Whoa! Look what I discovered. We can do this without an image map"...

  14. Re:Remember the Labs.... by kleinux · · Score: 2, Funny
    The other big question is whether people will start using the Google spinoff services or not. I'm not sure that many people will get beyond the initial main Google search page.

    That is why I love to tell people about news.google.com. The best collective news source on the net.
  15. Yahoo's got a while to go... by 5i · · Score: 3, Funny

    they still think they're only the FIFTH best search engine.

    amusingly, even yahoo thinks Google is the best in the world