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Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia
Jamesday writes "Yahoo! Search will also be providing support for Wikipedia. Discussions, started at the same time as the aforementioned Google announcement, have been ongoing with both Yahoo! and Google but only the Google news leaked. It's now more clear why Wikipedia said there was no need to worry about undue influence from any single sponsor."
They ARE working together! See!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
But but...
Look, it's weird:
Yahoo! search for asfdhfjewrtwsdfsdfgt
Google search for asfdhfjewrtwsdfsdfgt
They're *EXACTLY* the same result pages. If that's not a proof, I don't know what is...
(By the way, re-read the parent post, it says Yahoo! *used* to use the Google engine. Not anymore...)
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
> Yahoo! search for `xyzzy' [yahoo.com]
"Results 1 - 10 of about 165,000 for xyzzy- 0.02 sec."
Nothing happens.
> Google search for `xyzzy' [google.com]
"Results 1 - 10 of about 287,000 for xyzzy. (0.24 seconds)"
Almost twice as much nothing happens.
A hollow voice says "Who do you think you are, Scott Adams?"
I've been stuck on this level of the internet forever!!! Once I typed the magic word xyzzy into my address bar, I am win!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
let the race to altruism begin.
Don't you know? "asfdhfjewrtwsdfsdfgt" was one of the names that Mandrakesoft was going to change Mandrake Linux to.
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."