Comments on: Is Yahoo a better search engine than Google?

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:19:59 +0000

[...] I have had more success finding my own things with Yahoo much like others out there, as well as when it comes to Search Engine [...]

By: qb

qb — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:43:28 +0000

Got to say I have the opposite experience. For example, I was searching the site that compares al-mahdi with antichrist (specifically the site al-mahdi.atspace.com). Searching al-mahdi in Google gives it at second place. Searching Yahoo! gave me nothing. Even when I typed the entire address, it only links to articles that include it, but never the site itself. Guess the site got dropped from Yahoo!

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:43:14 +0000

In the past few months I have added things to my web site and then checked each day to see how long it takes the various search engines to find them. The results are pretty consistent. It takes Yahoo about 7-10 days to index any new item I add to my site. It takes AltaVista about 9-12 days. It takes Google 3-6 weeks, and many things I have added 6 months ago Google still can’t find. Many of these items are historic artifacts that have unique phrases associated with them. I can search for those unique phrases and Yahoo and AltaVista find every one. Google finds some of them, but only after many months or years.

The problem with all of Google’s algorythmn and page ranking nonsense is that people just want to find what they are looking for. Yahoo and AltaVista find what one is looking for, especially if it is a unique phrase on the internet. Do a Google search for these unique phrases and you get zero results.

I also recently discovered that when searching images for ideas on how to build something, Yahoo was the winner because it included a great many Flickr images of things that people had already built. I was looking for ideas on building my own big-screen TV stand. Google only found manufacturers’ images. Yahoo found dozens of images of home-built TV stands.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:54:15 +0000

I know that at one point of time google was MUCH better than any existing search engine. Be it inktomi or alltheweb or yahoo. But right now google is probably as good as google and only reason why google (even youtube) gets more searches is because google has become synonymous with search. Having themselves as default search engine on firefox and safari has also given a major boost to their popularity.

That aside, I see that Yahoo’s search has actually improve a lot and in some cases (like the once you pointed), it outperforms Google.

By: Pragmites

Pragmites — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:45:07 +0000

One reason that i can logically think of for a site not showing up is Google’s ranking methodology. It is common knowledge that they use a number of parameters to rank a website on a search engine results page. One of them happens to be the number and quality of links pointing to your website as well as content. Since some of your content has links to spammy sites, your importance in the eyes of Google falls considerably.

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Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:59:53 +0000

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By: Rob Cottingham

Rob Cottingham — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:56:55 +0000

Just glad I could help.

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Google fyller tio år | KATTKORGEN — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:54:01 +0000

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