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Yahoo search just doesn't understand user experience - no wonder it lags behind Google.
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from neelakanthap 68 days ago #
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Very good post!

from Pinje84 68 days ago #
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Great post! I couldn't argue with any of the points, whenever I use yahoo it just seems sluggish and a pain to use compared to Google.

from aaronpaul 68 days ago #
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Great points.  However, I find the quality of results in Yahoo better in a lot of cases.  Google's tendancy to favor older sites brings back a lot of out dated stuff when doing research oriented queries.  That's my experience anyhow, and that is part of the UI as well.  But, I certainly can't argue with your points.

from iantester 67 days ago #
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In the interests of balance: a. it's hardly fair to criticise Yahoo! for not copying Google (Preferences) then criticise it for copying Google (autocomplete). And you could of course use Yahoo! Search by typing yahoo.co.uk (or yahoo.ie) and using that big searchy thing at the top of the page.

The reason I don't use it is because I find that often the links to results time out (and have done for years) - yahoo! seem to have a real problem with their redirect servers on all their services.

Disclosure: I'm ex-Yahoo! - you can tell us because we're so indoctinated we always spell it with a "!" (known as the Y-bang, incidentally)


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