Yahoo! Switches Search Engines 395
Giorgio Baresi writes "As several sources are reporting, Yahoo! in the last hours dumped Google and rolled out a brand new search engine mainly based on Inktomi search technology and Overture sponsored results. On Monday Yahoo! also launched its own crawler, called "Yahoo! Slurp", which replaced former "Inktomi Slurp". Hey, it seems the search engine war has begun!"
The search engine war has begun? (Score:5, Funny)
is it just me... (Score:5, Funny)
..its own crawler, called "Yahoo! Slurp".. (Score:2, Funny)
But the morning is young.
Somewhere, on the deck of the USS Yahoo! (Score:4, Funny)
Gentlemen! Start your slurping!
You goal is to slurp more than 6,000,000,000 elements of the World Wide Web! It's a fight we cannot afford to lose! Now, go, and may Bob be with you!
I can picture the board meeting (Score:5, Funny)
Some initial results (Score:1, Funny)
Yahoo: 9070 Google: 7780
"endothelial maximum peanut butter rate"
Yahoo: 142 Google: 116
"bsd is dying"
Yahoo: 63300 Google: 18900
Seems like Google's got some competition!
Marketing dept. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Somewhere, on the deck of the USS Yahoo! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I doubt this is a major problem for Google (Score:2, Funny)
Results (Score:5, Funny)
Searching for Yahoo on Google [google.com] comes up with 119 million hits.
Google got depth
Yahoo can't even search its own kind!
Re:Didn't.... (Score:5, Funny)
Did you try googling [google.co.uk] for it?
Re:The search engine war has begun? (Score:5, Funny)
How can you speak if you haven't got a brain?
Re:Surely you mean (Score:5, Funny)
Reverse Polish Notation, he speaks in.
Slurp... (Score:1, Funny)
Boy,these search engines sure have low self-esteem (Score:2, Funny)
Yahoo - 7,510 responses
Google - 4,400 responses
"Google Sucks"
Yahoo - 992 responses
Google - 2,430 responses
reverse study (Score:2, Funny)
Yahoo about "google" results 47,000,000
Now who is the winner. Apperently they are both cheering each other on.
Typo in the title.. apologies to The Register.. (Score:2, Funny)
Need info? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The search engine war has begun? (Score:5, Funny)
Star Wars leads to quotes.. quotes lead to puns...
Puns lead to funny mods.
Much to learn, have you.
Re:Some initial results (Score:2, Funny)
Yahoo: The SCO Group's official website
Google: Some chintzy site about Google bombing SCO
In fact, site:sco.com does not appear anywhere in Google's 13,700 results for "litigious bastards", which was the whole point of the silly Google bombing.
I'm going to try out Yahoo's new search technology, because I'm tired of every google search I do resulting in the top 50 results all trying to sell me something (usually not even what I searched for). If I was looking to buy something, I'd use Froogle. And increasingly often the top sites are all identical keyword-stuffed pages at different domains-- obviously googlebombed results.
I was using the web when Lycos came out. It blew me away. Then altavista came out, and it blew Lycos away. Then there was an uncertain period, and then Google came out and blew everything else away. Let's set aside our love of Google for a minute, and imagine a search engine that blows Google away. There's no reason why it can't happen. I'm not saying Yahoo! is it; in fact I doubt it. But there's a lot of groupthink here that anything new that's not Google can't be as good or better than Google. There's clearly a lot of room for improvement.
I'm rambling. I'll stop now.
Re:Wonder if it's Linux boxen? (Score:5, Funny)
Does anyone know?
I would imagine someone does, yes.
A new entrant into the browser war (Score:2, Funny)
During the press release announcing Yahoogoslavia's new search technology, their CTO, Franics Ferdinand, what hit in the face, and killed, with a pi algorithm.
The pi was launched by a Serbian coder, claiming victory for the common man. This blantant attack has upset the delicate balance of power and the combatants are quickly aligning themselves for a long drawn out trench war.
Switzerland is of course claiming neutrality, and the French are waiting to be occupied.
SCO (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Relevance? (Score:4, Funny)
"(also, it's plainly obvious that Google can withstand /., but can Yahoo?)"
Well yes, because after all, yahoo is only one of the biggest sites on the internet, with a mere 105 million hits per day
Re:Relevance? (Score:5, Funny)
more evil than satan [yahoo.com]
miserable failure [yahoo.com]
and of course...
litigious bastards [yahoo.com]
seems to work just fine!
Re:Actually... (Score:4, Funny)
it is all about how you index it.
Re:Results (Score:3, Funny)
site:yahoo.com [google.com] on google yeilds 14,100,000
while
searching site:yahoo.com [yahoo.com] on yahoo only yeilds 7,580,000
(Side note: yahoo's url is also longer, this will take more time to type in on IE
Re:The search engine war has begun? (Score:4, Funny)
I can just see the Yahoo CEO addressing his legions of web crawlers, proclaiming, "A New Power is rising! It's victory is at hand."
There will be no IPO for Google...
Re:I doubt this is a major problem for Google (Score:2, Funny)
(ie: those yahoos down in Accounting)
So maybe it should be changed to "I'll just ask those yahoos for it"
Re:Relevance? (Score:2, Funny)