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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. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog by LookSharp · · Score: 1, Troll

    "I'm sorry, the correct answer is 'who gives a shit?'" :)

    Seriously, I'm sure we're all deeply concerned about which search engine Yahoo is using today. I forget, do we WANT Google to become the master search engine, or not? Or is that another thing we change day by day?

    What are the perceived implications? That will answer my follow-on question, "Why is this newsworthy?"

  2. The "new" "Overture" search: by illuminatedwax · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's a link in case you can't find it!
    --Stephen

    --
    Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?