Google is great for text searches but some say that Yahoo is better for image searches. Ask.com supposedly has the best image search and I have to agree. Ask even has AJAX to an extent so I feel that it's even greater. I really like Clusty for text searches since it allows you to wade through the crap you only want to wade through. For example, if you were to search for Half-Life, and you wanted information about the scientific phenomena and not the game, you can choose which one you want to search for. There are better examples, though.

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i havent actually used yahoo in a long time. Googles what i've been using for years now, i suppose its just become a habbit. At any rate yahoo does a very good job at filtering searches as well

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I'm not really fun of using google because it kind of a boring site. but as I review some comments and try to compare it slowly with yahoo.. it is more convenient and effecient... LOL

-amir

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hmm... well to tell you the truth, the only times i have ever used yahoo are when i have needed to use yahoo answers. otherwise, i use google.

however, i believe google is becoming polluted. before, it provided search results with the most relevance and best content. now, it is heavily influenced by the so-called 'search engine optimisation', and by its advertising partners... it tends to place websites that advertise on google nearer to the front of your results...

also, i have found google to become too dominating these days. i have liked google because it seems to suppoirt open source projects such as firefox. its services seem really neat (im in love with gmail). finally, it has always aimed to put an end to microsoft's evil regime. however, these days i have found google to be just as annoying, corrupt and evil as microsoft... they misuse their great influence over the internet...

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now THIS is the thread that opinios are great....even when people are in disagreement

and i am in disagrement with you except when you talked about trying to put an end to microsoft's evil regime i loved microsoft back in the day. they created a great operating system and created great programs. problem i have with them today is everything microsoft does now is dependant on what they've done in the past. also, they are are thieves. they buy out the smaller companies that might give them competition in the future or companies that have something they want and when they buy people off, they take the credit. microsoft has gotten way too big and they are a force to be reckoned with now. this is why they find themselves in court all the time because the u.s. government has stepped in. google on the other hand is a reletively new company and hasn't really dominated any one area except for their search engine. they are even in the midst of losing their copywrited name since we are turning their company name in to a word in the english language. google is too new to be too big bud i am happy with google right now because they are offering things that no other company has offered in the past. i love new technology that benefits society in general. i don't like the misuse of it like microsoft has done. this is why i am a firm believer in open source.

yes, google put ads on their search results. i didn't like that either BUT if i have to accept them just so google gets paid for all their wonderfull efforts and hard work then so be it. it was also genious of them to start that trend. google adwords was great for small businesses so they could compete even further with the big boys. yahoo hides their paid ads. did you know that? they trick you in to thinking it is part of your search result. google doesn't do this. google is #1, they are not too big, since how can they be when they are a relatively new company? and they continue to offer great services. i hope to god that they never take advantage like microsoft has to where i eventually hate google. i hope that never happens.

also, btw, yahoo isn't a search engine. yahoo is a directory like dmoz. GOOGLE is a search engine why do people not know this yet? yahoo's search results are mostly dependant on other results of other companies.

 

 

 

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Currently, Google has become my preferred Search Engine for almost anything I need to search on the internet. It's a go-to search with almost everything I need, well developed and great upkeep as well as a few nice extras such as iGoogle, etc.

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Google is the best for me. I've never used any other search engine but I believe it is the best. It shows very good results from the searches and the funtions are really good.

I have adsense on my website, I use the image search, google earth, and froogle. I also use others.

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I always use Google. It'd used by proffessionals as well. Yaho I do not have a huge knowledge of so I hardly Have an opinion on it. However, Google is good I reckon it is better

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Google is obviously (llook at results) the better search engine.

I ALWAYS use google. Google has soo many features... and it is a great company that people can use for anything from translating text, making money thru ads and searching.

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theres no doubt that google is the as u can already see the percentage of votes that google has got
yahoo on the other hand takes time to load....it isn't great
i hate it ..dislike

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