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What percentage of American men answered "YES" to the following question: Do you think Google is a better search engine than Yahoo? -- nm

Posted by Mop (197 lbs) (aka rburriel) May 4 '12, 11:46

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duh...yahoo is not a search engine, is a directory...they provide key word searches from other source (IIRC) -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 11:52 8
- Follow me here... Yahoo was - and remains - a directory. In 2003 they bought search provider Overture and became a search engine. - Mop (197 lbs) May 4, 11:57 3
  - and bing just uses Google. Or at least they used to. -- nm - sycor May 4, 12:16 1
    - not quite. they were accused of... here.. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 4, 12:25
  - how did I forget about that? d'oh! -- nm - b. May 4, 11:59
- yahoo! search (at yahoo! and elsewhere) is one of the most used engines out there. -- nm - b. May 4, 11:54 3
  - yahoo! is a brand that started as an internet directory (which means it did not have a crawler/spider, it relied on submissions). - Beryllium May 4, 12:09 2
    - thanks, but... - b. May 4, 12:22 1
      - inktomi? -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 13:33
70% -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) May 4, 11:52
100 -- nm - spamlet May 4, 11:48 2
- Remember, some of these men live in North Carolina. -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) May 4, 11:48 1
  - 103.5%, cause they voted twice, thats what they thought the instructions said -- nm - tRuMaN (oddly mispronounced) May 4, 11:54
Holy..! I nailed it on the nose! -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) May 4, 11:46

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