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Yahoo! Switches Search Engines

Posted by timothy on from the look-this-way dept.

Giorgio Baresi writes "As several sources are reporting, Yahoo! in the last hours dumped Google and rolled out a brand new search engine mainly based on Inktomi search technology and Overture sponsored results. On Monday Yahoo! also launched its own crawler, called "Yahoo! Slurp", which replaced former "Inktomi Slurp". Hey, it seems the search engine war has begun!"

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  1. The search engine war has begun? by MullerMn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean, "Begun, the search engine war has.".

    1. Re:The search engine war has begun? by GuyinVA · · Score: 5, Funny

      That would be nice. Maybe now they can pull up something relevant to what I searched for in the first place.

      How can you speak if you haven't got a brain?

    2. Re:The search engine war has begun? by paranode · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does a Star Wars pun really rate that high of a mod?

      Star Wars leads to quotes.. quotes lead to puns...

      Puns lead to funny mods.

      Much to learn, have you.

  2. is it just me... by glen604 · · Score: 5, Funny

    or does a webcrawler named "slurp" sound like something more appropriate for booble.com?

  3. Somewhere, on the deck of the USS Yahoo! by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Funny


    Gentlemen! Start your slurping!

    You goal is to slurp more than 6,000,000,000 elements of the World Wide Web! It's a fight we cannot afford to lose! Now, go, and may Bob be with you!

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  4. I can picture the board meeting by ProudClod · · Score: 5, Funny

    CEO: We want a search engine that evokes pride and confidence. Disgruntled Employee: *aside*Let's face it, compared to google it's gonna suck. */aside* How about "Slurp"? CEO: Slurp! I like it!

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  5. Results by savagedome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Searching for Yahoo on Yahoo comes up with about 102 million hits.

    Searching for Yahoo on Google comes up with 119 million hits.

    Google got depth :)
    Yahoo can't even search its own kind!

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  6. Re:Didn't.... by NickFitz · · Score: 4, Funny
    I couldn't find anything about it on the web

    Did you try googling for it?

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  7. Re:Surely you mean by DrSkwid · · Score: 5, Funny



    Reverse Polish Notation, he speaks in.

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  8. Re:Wonder if it's Linux boxen? by caluml · · Score: 5, Funny

    To answer one of your questions:

    Does anyone know?
    I would imagine someone does, yes.

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  9. Re:Relevance? by Dutch_Cap · · Score: 4, Funny

    "(also, it's plainly obvious that Google can withstand /., but can Yahoo?)"

    Well yes, because after all, yahoo is only one of the biggest sites on the internet, with a mere 105 million hits per day

  10. Re:Relevance? by Fishstick · · Score: 5, Funny

    the real test?

    more evil than satan

    miserable failure

    and of course...
    litigious bastards

    seems to work just fine!

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    There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
    Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.

  11. Re:Actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on... size doesn't matter...

    it is all about how you index it.