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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. pah, yahoo.com is totally useless by grazzy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    google has a clean and fast interface, i dont want to load 10kb of bloat every time i enter a keyword to search for.

    1. Re:pah, yahoo.com is totally useless by rf0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Google takes the its liteness very seriously. In an interview someone from google said that they kept recieving emails with numbers in it. One week 54, the next week 56. They finally worked out it was someone saying how may words appeared on the title page. Since then they've purposly kept it low

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  2. Its far too late in the day... by BlightThePower · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...Google have a degree of mind-share now that Yahoo just won't be able to impact (realistically speaking). I realised the game was up when I was watching a rerun of "The West Wing" and one character told another to "do a google [search]". When your company name creeps into the language as a verb, you've basically won the battle for the foreseeable future. And yes, of course, marketing aside, searching with Google remains a far more rewarding experience than using Yahoo; less bloat and of course the superior technology behind it. Google works, its going to be hard to make me change.

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  3. byte misers by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have you ever used "View Source" on the google homepage? To shave bytes, they have used one-letter variable names and removed almost every nonessential space and newline. Take a look sometime, it's impressive (and confusing).

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  4. Making It Pay v.s. Making It Work by akadruid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One simple reason why Google have taken the lead is the focus shown by Yahoo on making their ideas pay back a profit.
    This policy has resulted in a switch of public opinion. People no longer want pages crammed with content covering every possible spectrum. The new generation of surfer can cope with the idea of a search engine, a news portal and a web-email provider on seperate sites, allowing them to choose the best of each.
    It's a bit like asking a hi-fi enthusiast whether he prefers an integrated system or a seperate cd-player, amplifier and speakers.
    The average surfer has grown up, and Yahoo has been left behind.
    Just my thoughts...

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  5. Google still not W3C-compliant... by SlashChick · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unfortunately, Google's home page is still not W3C compliant. They don't put in a doctype, which is the first problem, and few of the HTML tag attributes are quoted, resulting in 53 HTML errors.

    I'd be much happier if they added 100 bytes or so to the page to make it completely W3C-compliant -- it's not that hard to do, and it would make them have one more bragging right over Yahoo and the others.

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  6. Re:Correction. Google is not a made up word by Schnapple · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And the reason that you won't find references to mathmatics when you google "Google" is because that's not how you spell it.

    "googol" is the math term. "google" is an intentional mis-spelling of the math term.

    And I never got the idea of "beat"les, I just figured Lennon was trying to be silly.

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