Why do so many people like Google?
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I agree with you. ANd it's because it was one of the first. People 'love' and use Google because of the name. Instead of saying, "do an internet search" people say, "Google it" everyone knows what you mean. The same with iPods, you buy the name. There are better MP3 players out there that cost a lot less, yet everyone gets an iPod because of the name.
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Simplicity. \n\nEveryone likes Google because when you go to the homepage, it's simple enough... what can we help you search for? It doesn't have advertisements, or distracting ads. Everything is relevent to your search.\n\nIt's not perfect, but simplicity is always best when it comes to the task of searching.
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Part of the reason is that Wall street is excited about search, and google being the #1 search engine, commands a higher multiple in the open market.
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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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Google consistently provides visitors to my websites.  Over 75 percent of my visitors found it through google.   Yahoo is only 2nd place, providing about 20 percent.  MSN is a distant third with about 10 percent. \n\nSo buy your GOOGLE AD.   That service will really deliver.
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For general searches, it's Google (http://www.google.com ), Google is the best not only because it has the most pages indexed, and the fastness, but also the cleanliness of it's page, the simple and easy to use interface, only little text ads not big stupid ads, free, the sorting by relevancy is nice, and because it reindex cycle is the fastest, only around one month, other dearch engine usually takes more than one month. It also has long history
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Absolutely. Google is a lean, mean searching machine. No frills. Yahoo's home page takes so long to open I gave up using them years ago (I'm still on dial up). I prefer a clean search page. If I wanted news and all those other links, I would go to them directly.
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The number of visits is probably barely an issue.  Yes, keywords are considered, but there is so much more involved.\n\nFor instance, links to a site are considered to be a good measure of how people view a web site.  If a site is valuable, then it will have a lot of people linking to it.  The more links, the higher it will climb, especially on Google.\n\nThe link below provides a basic summary of search engine ranking.
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Six things Google has found to be true:\n\n1. From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. \n2. Google does search.\n3. Google believes in instant gratification. You want answers and you want them right now. \n4. Google works because it relies on the millions of individuals posting websites to determine which other sites offer content of value.\n5. Always deliver more than expected. Google does not accept being the best as an endpoint, but a starting point.\n6. The need for information crosses all borders.
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Google is an online Search engine, you can search up anything on google, you type in something you are searching and you will get results. Google also has this email service called Gmail, it is no spam at all. when searching at google you can find anything on the web, any images Google also has News and groups you can go to those links and also there is Froogle wich is froo·gle (fru'gal) n. Smart shopping through Google. There are many things you can Find On google just by pressing the more tab.  some are maps, translators, and blog searching.  \nGoogle, a popular search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the keywords you have entered in the search box.\nGoogle, Inc. , is a U.S.-based corporation, established in 1998, that manages the Google search engine. Google is headquartered at the "Googleplex" in Mountain View, California, and employs over 3,000 workers. Dr. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Novell, took over as Google's CEO when co-founder Larry Page stepped down. \n\nHoped any of that helped
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I believe fully that Google takes the medal. I believe this because Google has many different and unique search engines, such as Web, Images, Groups, News, Froogle and Google Maps and Google Earth. There are also alerts, blog search, book search, catalog search, Google Desktop, directory, finance, Google Local, news, scholar search, specialized searches (Government Search, Linux, BSD, Apple, and Microsoft), Google Toolbar, video, blogger, calendar, Gmail, groups, image editor, IM, and finally a language translation tool. These highly useful features draw much attention to Google, and on top of it all, it has the most reliable search engine that many flock to for research, or just for leisure.
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it refers to the website Google and how big and bad they seem to everyone. There mastery of proficiency in their search engines. Thus googleflux is born
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If you're talking about google search, then HITS will take you up the list.  have your friends and family all do lots and lots of hits on your site.  Keywords will make it more likely for your site to come up in more searches.
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Count my vote for Google, buts lets first do some analysis:\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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Found your question after querying for Yahoo on Yahoo News from my Yahoo email beta. Yahoo news lead me to your interview with Yahoo VP on Answers.  \n\nYahoo search results are equivalent or better than Google's, and then Yahoo has so much more to offer.  So with the ad platform fix starting this fall, what is not to like?  Google has great brand recognition, but it is very early still on the web.  Of course, Yahoo is undervalued, although I usually look to folks like you to help me decide.
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Its simply popular because it's given ordinary people tools that they want to keep in touch with other people.\n\nAnything innovative that helps people communicate more effectivly is going to become huge very fast.  This is the case for MySpace as well.
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Google can work wonders