Search engines are inherently not very intelligent. However, if a user wants to find Yahoo!, they should be able to. But, imagine that someone might have made their own website with some strange yahoo (other than the portal site) topic. I want to see if Lycos registered my site when I asked them to. Oh, sure they did, but no one can find it, because we don't issue that query...
Granted, this is highly unlikely, but it is bad design to ignore certain queries simply because of a competitor.
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The obvious sarcastic comment is..."Who wants a win32 user to admin a linux system?"
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Search engines are inherently not very intelligent. However, if a user wants to find Yahoo!, they should be able to. But, imagine that someone might have made their own website with some strange yahoo (other than the portal site) topic. I want to see if Lycos registered my site when I asked them to. Oh, sure they did, but no one can find it, because we don't issue that query...
Granted, this is highly unlikely, but it is bad design to ignore certain queries simply because of a competitor.
My $0.02.