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Yahoo to Dump Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

unassimilatible writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting (paid subscription required) that Yahoo! plans to dump Google as its primary search technology. In a major revamp, Yahoo will also add personalization and customization features to extend the usefulness of searches and expand its use of "paid inclusion." Yahoo news has picked up the story. Might be time to rethink that IPO."

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  1. Re:Googling it.. by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google's search will be just as good as it's always been, the number of times it's used has no impact on how much knowledge it has about the web and what it does about it.

  2. Posting Paid Subscription links... by I-R-Baboon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is complete horseshit especially when you can find other links. Take for instance this link.

    Enjoy the reading fellow /.ers.

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  3. Re:Might be time to rethink that IPO? by Verteiron · · Score: 5, Informative

    And Metacrawler, the cool engine that actually searched all of the OTHER engines, then organized and displayed the results. One of the most amazingly useful things on the web at the time. Then they got bought by go.com, I think, which got bought by Disney... I just checked, Metacrawler is still around, but predictably it's all paid links. Sad...

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  4. Re:Karma Whore Alert! by balbord · · Score: 4, Informative

    Same post here yesterday.

    Now go to your room!

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  5. Re:Maybe Yahoo is changing for a reason by Tom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now I have to sort through page upon page of sites wanting to sell me said item,

    Learn to search. Using a search engine properly is a little more than dumping a word into the tiny box.

    Google offers pretty good advanced search options, which you can use to great effect to weed out the stuff you don't want, refine the search, offer alternative spellings or keywords, etc.

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  6. Look closer... by GeckoFood · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yahoo! plans to dump Google as its primary search technology.

    The word primary is very important here. It implies that Yahoo! is not completely abandoning Google, but is making it second string instead. If they're still letting us access Google, even if it requires a couple of extra clicks, then I can't see this as entirely bad. I like Google and it's my first pick, but I certainly don't limit myself to Google...

    I did not see in the article where Yahoo! is completely dropping Google. If it's in there, I missed it.

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  7. Re:Googling it.. by MCZapf · · Score: 4, Informative
    Also, I think Google collects some feedback from users to see what links they click in the search results. Presumably, the use this to tell which links are more likely to be relevent to a given search. Fewer people using the search engine will mean less of this kind of feedback.

    It's true though, that this doesn't really affect the spidering aspect of Google's knowledge.

  8. In other news... by supabeast! · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo users were still unable to find the "search" button at Yahoo.com among advertisements, sweepstakes offers, pretty buttons, news headlines, shopping categories, and about a hundred other annoyances.