Comments on: Are you kidding?!

By: Booger

Booger — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:35:32 +0000

When I do any type of search now on Yahoo, I get business crap for pages and pages. That is Yahoo’s relevence scale, business first. I want to make a search for a subject and actually find pages on the topic I searched for. Google is much better at this point, but not much.

For instance, say I do a search on “Boats in Dallss Texas”, probably 80% of the links returned will be from boat companies located anywhere but Dallas. So I have to read through 3000 link descriptions before I find one in Dallas.

Time for a new relevent search engine, one that does not privide free email just to get hits and cram ads down your throat.

By: rj

rj — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:42:38 +0000

when i search yahoo, i can’t find what i’m looking for, I use google more than phone book, because if type thousand oaks ca plumber, I find more plumbers in thousand oaks ca on the first search with google, than I do yahoo, so google’s got my business- I will say, I like yahoo homepage cause it’s got alot news and gossip, but it is distracting, so as business person trying to keep the people in my office on track, again I preach google and its pure clean format-
Maybe i’m biased, i do own alot of google stock!

By: interested

interested — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:16:35 +0000

Quite a lot of these posts are slating Yahoo – but just ask yourself how much bandwidth Google Adsense eats up. I can tell you now that on a 1 meg connection, with a firewall then a proxy then another firewall behind the proxy on which the client computers reside – it is quite a significant amount. I used Dansguardian and squid and blocked all the adsense from googlesyndication and adsense2.googlesyndication.com. ALL internet pages loaded 1000 percent faster and I don’t just mean those which have adsense material on them – I mean ALL. The fact is that Google is the worst spammer of bandwidth on the net
WAKE UP AND SMELL WHAT’s ON THE END OF YOUR SHOVEL !!!!

By: Yahoo-Google

Yahoo-Google — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:22:04 +0000

I believe yahoo sucks and google sucks. When searching directly for a certain compamy or product the relevance that I am seeing is being placed on directories and blogs.

If I had wanted a directory or blog I would have put this in the search bar.

Now why on earth would I wish to sift through a whole bunch of garbage advertising to get to where I want to be or continue to look past page 3 to find the real McCoy.

Personally I have had it with both yahoo and google as times are constantly changing. Unfortunately yahoo and google in my opinion are not changing for the better but are seriously getting worse.

I remember a time when RC Cola and Shlitz malt liquor were at the top of their game. Now they are almost unheard of unless your looking for antique paraphernalia.

In my opinion yahoo and google are now the worst in the industry as far as search results. Try your same search on MSN and you will be surprised at the difference between them. MSN in my opinion is setting theirself apart with more accurate search results while yahoo and google continue to languish. As many new search engines are popping up there is only room for one at the top.

Now I think I will have a Pepsi cola or Budweiser beer while I ponder more thoughts.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:07:42 +0000

Honestly Google is much more easier to navigate, and I cannot stand the stupid search results I manage to get with Yahoo.

Google gets me what I want,with yahoo, I have to graze through the search results.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:29:21 +0000

Oh yes, you are soo good. Tell that to the Chinese journalisy who is now rotting in a Chinese jail because you betrayed him. And when our government as for your logs you just bend over and deliver. Yahoo sucks! You care not about your customers but about expediency.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:24:48 +0000

Jay, in the example you cite, Google’s page is definitely less busy.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:24:50 +0000

Let’s just take the comments at face value and treat them as a sobering reality check. The words remind me of Jobs’ prophetic statement years ago that “in order for Apple to succeed, it’s not necessary for Microsoft to fail.” Yahoo and Google are both amazing organizations. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

By: DaleG

DaleG — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:17:17 +0000

The main page says it all … Yahoo trys to do everything … you can’t do one great thing if you are attempting to do/offer everything!!

I can’t even find the search dialog …

By: Martin Dell

Martin Dell — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:19:32 +0000

Want to improve your search? Listen to and respond to feedback from Webmasters once in a while – they might be able to help.

I’d welcome a real Google competitor but you’re not even close in terms of index quality and responsiveness to the people providing the content for you to index in the first place.