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Brokekid asked in Computers & InternetInternet · 2 decades ago

Which do you like better? Yahoo or Google?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    It depends on what I am using it for. I like Google's search better. But I also like other features on Yahoo, like email. I like them equally.

  • 2 decades ago

    Google

  • 2 decades ago

    My answer is google for the following reasons:

    Pros of Google:

    As a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.

    For makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.

    Google also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.

    The relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.

    Google has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.

    Cons of Google:

    However, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.

    Also, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.

    Due to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.

    Yahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker.

    http://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%...

  • 2 decades ago

    Yahoo

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  • Tim
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    2 decades ago

    I use both of em constantly. I believe that YAHOO and GOOGLE are the 2 best websites on the net. I can't separate the two.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    yahoo is so much better t6han google

  • 2 decades ago

    I personally prefer Google search to Yahoo!. However, you can do a blind test for yourself here:

    http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/seo-tools-n...

    The results so far have favored Google over Yahoo! over MSN (which is a third search engine included in the test). It appears that the market share is justified.

  • 2 decades ago

    GOOGLE WORKS BETTER THAN YAHOO

    I LIKE GOOGLE

    I DONT LIKE YAHOO TOO MUCH

  • 2 decades ago

    yahoo is better for news and google is better for search and emails a/c space.

  • 2 decades ago

    They're both good. I acutally use them both. But probably not even - 65% Yahoo and 35% Google

  • 2 decades ago

    I don't like yahoo or google i use www.search.com because it searchs all seach engine its yahoo, google, ask, and lots of others in one!

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