Why do people like Google when they are only good at 1 thing?
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Yeah, I agree.  Google sucks!
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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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Because it is:-\nSimple\nHas an elegant UI\nHas a lot of options for searching like web, images, news, local,blog etc.\nRemember your past searches and therfore gives more relevant results
608748
There's a corporate culture that is unique to Google, but it's not a sect per se.  They don't need to worry about making money because they're all mega-bazillionaire's already.
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Google. Google is like Chuck Norris while Yahoo is like Indiana Jones. Chuck triumphs every time.
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I prefer Google. It's faster, returns more relevant hits, and provides more options.
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Google.. Compare the speed and relavence with any other search engine. you can feel the difference. Google has innovative ideas and great services. Awaiting GOS now.. - GOOGLE OPERATING SYSTEM.
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I prefer Yahoo's search engine over others.
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I'll talk about the Google search engine. In my opinion, because:\n1-the search page has a simple and clear design (people get crazy with complicated designs)\n2-answers layout looks like answers (not much publicity)\n3-the pagerank algorythm is decently good
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People have shorter attention spans. As proved by several statments above, people want just the main points, and don't want to make things overly complicated. It's rather ironic, then, that as we have more complicated machines, that we want everything in it's simplest form. But, on the other hand, the media is encouraging it, too, so it's hard to pinpoint who is starting all this.
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You should learn how to create your search queries. I try other search engines but I always end up going back to google. It gives me exactly what I'm looking for, not what others think I want. \nOther search engines are too simplified for me.\n\nBut that's why everyone has a preference.
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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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I have never imagined there could be so many people so lazy they couldn't even use a search engine.\nI guess it is easier to let someone else do it for you.
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My answer is google as I need a search engine as my homepage 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.\nhttp://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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To determine the best your need to set some criteria.\n\nIn my opinion, any major search engines qualifies a one of the best websites. \n\nI like google but I thinks that more to do with the type of stuff I tend to search for and the keywords I use. \n\nfor example, I founded the following \n\nsearch: best websites
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I think that google is pretty good. Their search engine seems to be much better than the average search engine and G mail is becoming popular, but BEWARE of downloading their toolbar, I have done it a few times and had problems with the computer and my antivirus kicked right in and destroyed it. Other than that, they are pretty good. :0)
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Advertising, just like Google.....