Is Google better than Yahoo?
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In search and mail. Google ROCKS!!\nSimply ROCKS!! Who else gives you close to 3Gb of email space???\n\nI just love the gmail interface.. No delays at all.. Yahoo seems to be designed for the broadband guys.. \n\nAnd the chat feature within gmail is SUPERB!!
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Yahoo and Google are competitors. What do you expect?
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I prefer Yahoo's search engine over others.
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They are both search engine/internet based companies. Yahoo offers more "extra" services than google such as web design, online gaming, matchmaking, etc. Where-is Google hasn't really explored this market yet.
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ici prefers "goggle", lol.  Yahoo! is a great search engine.  This is the first one I have used, and have been using it since its inception.  Have tried them all, and Yahoo! fits my needs as to how my computer should be used.
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If you are talking about pay per click advertising (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing), you don't want "hits." You want clicks that resolve in sales conversions.\n\nIn my experience, Google far outperforms Yahoo in terms of volume of clicks and conversions. We blow through our Google budget 3-4x faster than Yahoo and the leads are slightly higher quality.\n\nDon't even bother with MSN or Ask. They don't have their acts together yet.\n\nGood luck!
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I use Yahoo a lot but prefer google.  I find they have better results and you can't beat google maps, especially the satalite images.
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I have been using the internet for a year now and most people I know use Google,so I sarted using just it.Over the months,I went on to discover other possibilities and I am very happy now using Yahho Mail,Yahoo Answers and My Yahoo.I still prefer Google for searching but I don't like gmail,I use it for some practical reasons but don't feel confortable whith it.I think it is good to have alternatives and to be able to use many different resources,in a way that works for you.
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I have both...like yahoo better.
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I like the Yahoo search better than Google.  I'm a stickler for what I'm used to.  Also, the GMail thing is still in beta form, isn't it?  Lame.  Yahoo rocks!  Oh, and Google doesn't have Yahoo Answers!
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Yes, but yahoo! is better
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You can not compare between Microsoft and yahoo, microsoft is a software company while Yahoo is a web company. If you ask whose web service i like best, I will say Yahoo. Yahoo offers vast range of services and you can't count them. While google is more populer in search and provides more feture in gmail, Yahoo has human touch on all it's work. And working in yahoo environment is easy. And promoting web2.0 making yahoo another great player on the web. Micrsoft is still immature when it comes about internet serice. As it tries hard we wish to get more and more good products. Half of all great softwares are made by microsoft.\nAnd "yahoo copies google in search" is a wrong idea. they have come up with some solid innovation. And bad attutude toward microsoft because it is so successful is wrong. Microsoft is so successful in software because it tries hard and make every thing user friendly and customizable. If microsoft can follow it it can do much good in web too.
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My answer is google for the following reasons:\n\nPros of Google:\n\nAs 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.\n\nFor 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.\n\nGoogle 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nGoogle has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.\n\nCons of Google:\n\nHowever, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.\n\nAlso, 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.\n\nDue 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.\n\nYahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker. http://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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Okay, here I go:\n1) Studies show that the general public cannot discern the quality of the two search engines.  However, Yahoo! is still seen (Ad Age) as offering a wider variety of practical services and this would be the main 'thing' that Yahoo! is doing over Google.  Also, Yahoo! offers a direct link to a human-sorted directory, which many novice web users may find attractive.\n2. Google's mapping technology was for time regarded as superior.  It allowed for multi-point trips (for example, you could get the directions from your house, to the museum, then the symphony hall, then back all at once, not one leg at a time).  It also allowed users to plot things like service stations on a graphically superior topographic or satellite map.  However, Yahoo! Maps Beta now offers many of these features and may have been introduced in sufficient time to win back past users who may have been starting to switch to Google.  MapQuest also offers strong competition because of its percieved easy of use and easily accessible practical features.\n3. Many consumers have yet to discover a need for desktop search clients, as the average harddrive is relatively small (compared to, say for example, the Internet) and most consumers (Ad Age) would agree with the statement that they keep their primary files relatively maintained.  However, I would venture to say that Google Desktop has a slight advantage insofar that it is free and usually comes bundled with antivirus software, mapping programs and other freebies consumers want.  However, Windows Vista has a feature called Virtual Directories which are essentially constantly running searches.  I.E You would setup a Virtual Directory called 'Latin Spice!' and it would automatically display every Latin dance MP3 on your computer in the 'directory', regardless of where the files are actually located.  This may make desktop searching software essentially outdated, but it remains to be seen.\n4. Another issue is Google's notorious secrecy.  Although it was bemussing back when they were a 'garage corporation', now that their 'playing' with billions of investors dollars and not the family toolshed, investors want to know whats going on.  Of course there's going to need to be some secrecy lest they leak out ideas to competitors, but overall Google has been slammed for a lack of a definate business plan, and overall direction for the firm.  Case in point, it was speculated that Google would reveal as Google-PC running Google software at C3 this year.  Such wild speculations and twists leads to investor unease.  Also, they are entering into the video market.  I'm not quite sure what the motivation for this was, as they are (at the moment) clearly no match for iTunes powerful video database.  Also, Google fails to advertise these features to the public relying instead (and I believe too heavily at times) on gossip and internet chatter.  Such channels are insufficient for the casual internet user to take advantage of.  Case in point again, many users would be surprised to find out you can ask Google simple questions even over SMS on your cellphone without an Internet browser.  However, Google's AdSense program, though relatively new, gives Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) quite a run for its money.  Yahoo! Search Marketing is seen as less attractive to the 'common man' wanting to go into online advertisement because (although they are optional costs) it makes it appear as though large setup fees and ongoing charges are required.  Google's AdSense seems to almost be tailored to small business and large alike, with only a $5 setup fee, more flexible use of what they call 'campains' and an arguably larger viewer base.  Also, Google makes it easier to exapand the AdSense viewing public by allowing even runners of small or personal sites to display the ads, whereas Yahoo! Search Marketing has a more rigourous site requirement
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google has always been a search company.  they are just now adding on other services, like email, and some other things, but their emphasis remains in search.\n\nyahoo has been more of a service company from the beginning.  email, chat clients, personals, tech and other forums, news, this answers forum, ..., with many more services to come in the future as well.  Yahoo also has deals with other companies for internet service.  google, not yet.\n\nwhile google has a better search function, yahoo has other things that make it more valuable to more people, so yahoo is likely not going anywhere any time soon.
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#1 Google http://www.google.com - Fast, usually gives the most accurate results to what I'm searching for.\n\n#2 Yahoo http://search.yahoo.com - Also fast, second best in results.  Sometimes gives me better answers.\n\nHint, if you go to that link for Yahoo Search, you don't have all the other garbage on screen.\n\nActually both engines have almost identical advanced search options, and are both very powerful.  It's more an issue of how you format you inquiries as to how accurate the search results are.
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cos google is basically a search engine where is yahoo is mainly a e-mail service provider so it has more results in google but as she said(/&#92;) dogpiles best since it combine all search engines and i bet u will get more on that.