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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. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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!"

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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"...