Why is Google doing so much better than Yahoo?
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cause it has a cooler name\npeople are bored of yahoo\nand google is faster \nbut i still love my yahoo!!
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Gooogle! it has always been in top. However the differences between Yahoo! and Google are becoming less. I mean Yahoo! is kool, but when it comes to searching, i prefer Google.
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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.\n\nhttp://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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the above is talking about sponsored links, which work the same, bidding in google and yahoo.\n\nGoogle is better because it has a better algorithm. It gives a better ranking to each individual page and gives more appropriate distribution. Google rules. It also punishes keyword spam.
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I have been a faithful user of Yahoo search for many years, until just recently.  I noticed that Yahoo does not give me the results i'm searchin for compared to the Google results.  Google has been really impressive lately. \n\nSorry Yahoo... Google has you beat... For Now anyways!
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cuz yahoo is the shiz whiz
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I keep telling people they should stop googling and start yahooing.  I don't know why people think google is so hot when yahoo can do the same job.
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All i can say is based on my personal experience is that Kosmix could be the next google. Because even before google there were googles.\n\nSorry if i confused you, i shall explain.\n\nFirst the main search engine was Altavista then came Ask Jeeves followed by Yahoo and now google.\nThe only reason many know about google is because only in the recent years did many people start using the net and because of Googles good marketing, everyone knows it.\nBut for me personally, even today a site that gives me reliable results is Yahoo. When compared to Google, Yahoo is more trickier to use. But if you master it, google is nothing in front of Yahoo.And another point being that, one of the main reason why google got famous is because of its search speed and absence of picture ads. But now yahoo is also catching up in speed wise by going for text ads instead of picture ads.\n\nGoogle may be fast but not that accurate. And generally talking, the internet searching solution have only reached 10% or less and there is a long way to go.\nThat's one more reason as to why google is diversifying into email,im,blogs and a calendar is on the way.\n\nAs for Kosmix, i did give it a shot. Must say that they have a long way to go. And if they have to beat google, they have to prepared for one hell of a battle ahead of them. Its a battle about technology and marketing.\n\nTalking of diversifying, its seen that most people prefer their email providers and search engine to be from the same site. And so if Kosmix has to survive, they too need to diversify.\n\nLets not forget that Google has one the best servers on earth. Even though officially its believed that Google has over 10,000 servers but some Analyst claim that its actually over 80,000. And Google is one of the leaders in Cluster Computing.\n\nCurrent most of the people are addicted to google and some seriously believe that google is the ONLY search engine on earth.
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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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Becuase Google's strategic direction is a step ahead of where Microsoft planned to be.  At some point your computer will be completely driven through web services, and Microsoft wants to be the host of those services.  Google is competing to beat them to the punch and has been successful.  If you pay close attention to their product releases Microsoft is right behind Google's coat tails on features and functions.  In addition to that Google is starting to take further interest in desktop applications that will compete with Microsoft.
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Currently I would say that yahoo is the better of the two. Only because of its familiarity and integration into other services it uses, i.e. yahoo 360, yahoo answers, flickr, etc.. gmail is more of just a web based email program with limited integration into googles other services, but that could all change.
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I prefer google to search, but I like to use yahoo for e-mail and answers. Google's layout of search results is cleaner than yahoo's, which makes it nicer. But yahoo has batter e-mail and it has yahoo answers.\nI don't know which is better, they both have different qualities
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I use yahoo search engine, almost ALL the time, reason #1) you have more features, which google doesn't. #2) yahoo mail is much better although it doesn't have as much space as g-mail BUT it doesn't keep all the records, unlike google, which keeps ALL the records, its possible you can google some of the message for you g-mail.,
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Okay... \n1.) You are an idiot. Yahoo are the evil capitalists here, they're the ones who sell out, they're the ones who offer site better placement in search results if they pay money.\n2.) You're an idiot. MSN is run by Microsoft (But I'm assuming you already know that), the even more shitty company that brings you computers that are impossible to handle or work with, Game systems that are put together from parts they practically buy right of the shelves (not to mention that they don't even make enough 360's to bring around, causing global chaos), they're the ones who try to think of new ideas... But google beats them to it.\n\nGoogle's products are better. \nTheir search engine is better than Yahoo's or MSN's. (and yes, I do realize that Yahoo is powered by Google, the difference is Yahoo sells out. See Above.)\nTheir browser (firefox) is better than IE.\nYahoo actually went to China first. \nWhat you don't see is that Google is doing the world a favor. Google paved the way for the internet... and they still are.
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both have advantages\n\nwhile Gmail has more storage, and less adds, yahoo has more functions and enough storage.
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You Love Yahoo! Do you know why??? Now a days its too active and it is releasing more and more for yahoo Community.\n       Perhaps one reason is Google's Rivalry and Open challenges. Don't hate others in order to love one. There should be a Perfect active competition in the market. This make us to get benefited.... Right
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cause yahoo gives people more what they want so they come to yahoo more than google