Yahoo! Switches Search Engines

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!"

Comments

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

[LookSharp]

"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?"

Oh yeah

[Dark Lord Seth]

Hey, it seems the search engine war has begun!

Yes dear. Now everyone who used Yahoo for searches will be scarred for life as ANY word returns at least 15000 sponsored links. Yes, that has GOT to be good for search result quality. Uh huh. Nothing like making search results useless by adding dozens of irrelevant sponsored links gets the people interested in your search engine. By the way, the world is flat and MS Windows is cheaper then Linux.

The "new" "Overture" search:

[illuminatedwax]

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

IN SOVIET RUSSA

[Anonymous Coward]

... the nipple slurps you!