Yahoo to Dump Google

unassimilatible writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting (paid subscription required) that Yahoo! plans to dump Google as its primary search technology. In a major revamp, Yahoo will also add personalization and customization features to extend the usefulness of searches and expand its use of "paid inclusion." Yahoo news has picked up the story. Might be time to rethink that IPO."

Re:Googling it..

[LostCluster]

Google's search will be just as good as it's always been, the number of times it's used has no impact on how much knowledge it has about the web and what it does about it.

Posting Paid Subscription links...

[I-R-Baboon]

Is complete horseshit especially when you can find other links. [google.com] Take for instance this link. [forbes.com]

Enjoy the reading fellow /.ers.

Re:Yahoo bot?

[jodo]

I've noticed a significant increase in the inktomi bot search on my sites.
Don't claim to know if that means anything.

Insightful? *cough*

[Dogtanian]

Might be time to rethink that IPO

You mean because Yahoo are dropping Google? Man, *that* was unexpected, no-one knew that was coming.
Seriously, if that's your reason, then you (or they) obviously didn't do any thinking or research in the first place.

As for Yahoo fighting back, I didn't see *that* coming either.

Re:Might be time to rethink that IPO?

[Verteiron]

And Metacrawler, the cool engine that actually searched all of the OTHER engines, then organized and displayed the results. One of the most amazingly useful things on the web at the time. Then they got bought by go.com, I think, which got bought by Disney... I just checked, Metacrawler is still around, but predictably it's all paid links. Sad...

Re:Karma Whore Alert!

[balbord]

Same post here [slashdot.org] yesterday.

Now go to your room!

Re:Maybe Yahoo is changing for a reason

[Tom]

Now I have to sort through page upon page of sites wanting to sell me said item,

Learn to search. Using a search engine properly is a little more than dumping a word into the tiny box.

Google offers pretty good advanced search options, which you can use to great effect to weed out the stuff you don't want, refine the search, offer alternative spellings or keywords, etc.

Look closer...

[GeckoFood]

Yahoo! plans to dump Google as its primary search technology.

The word primary is very important here. It implies that Yahoo! is not completely abandoning Google, but is making it second string instead. If they're still letting us access Google, even if it requires a couple of extra clicks, then I can't see this as entirely bad. I like Google and it's my first pick, but I certainly don't limit myself to Google...

I did not see in the article where Yahoo! is completely dropping Google. If it's in there, I missed it.

Re:Might be time to rethink that IPO?

[c.derby]

i think this is the site you are referring to. [metaspy.com]

enjoy!

Re:Rethink their IPO?

[at_18]

The parent comment was copied from This one [slashdot.org] in the Google IPO story. Nice way to get a Score:4

Re:Googling it..

[MCZapf]

Also, I think Google collects some feedback from users to see what links they click in the search results. Presumably, the use this to tell which links are more likely to be relevent to a given search. Fewer people using the search engine will mean less of this kind of feedback.

It's true though, that this doesn't really affect the spidering aspect of Google's knowledge.

Re:doubtfully

[leviramsey]

As far as I know, Google is still the exclusive search partner for a little company called AOL [aol.com].

In other news...

[supabeast!]

Yahoo users were still unable to find the "search" button at Yahoo.com among advertisements, sweepstakes offers, pretty buttons, news headlines, shopping categories, and about a hundred other annoyances.

Yes.

[rebelcool]

Google doesn't have a monopoly on search techniques and knowledge. Though they are fanatical about maintaining secrecy about some details of how their engine works, the main idea behind the majority of their ranking and a few improvements are well known.

Some claim Alltheweb [alltheweb.com] is better than google, but I find its about equal.

Some other experimental engines I've seen have alot of potential, especially the ones who come up with narrowing suggestions and do accurate self-categorization. Teoma [teoma.com] is a good example of that.

Re:Am I the only one that sees yahoo investing?

[Man_Holmes]

What you and everyone else here is missing is that part of that deal back in 2000 gave Yahoo ownership in Google.

They already own a big chunk of Google equity and it looks like they will be cashing out when Google goes public.

Man Holmes