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In response to "yahoo! search (at yahoo! and elsewhere) is one of the most used engines out there. -- nm" by b.

yahoo! is a brand that started as an internet directory (which means it did not have a crawler/spider, it relied on submissions).

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) May 4 '12, 12:09

Now the brand has been retasked to package up and re-sell other providers' search engine APIs. Bing, most recently.

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thanks, but... - b. May 4, 12:22 1
- inktomi? -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 13:33

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