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Ben Hammersley has an article in the Guardian that claims Yahoo has eclipsed Google. For him, Google’s real differentiators until now have been their lab and prototypes, and their API. He says Yahoo is better on the first, because they are more transparent:

Research.yahoo.com, launched last month, is the same idea as labs.google.com - a showcase for new and interesting projects - but it’s better. Unlike Google, Yahoo publishes its papers, names its researchers and says what it is up to.

He also claims Yahoo’s new API is better too, because it “has more features, it’s more complete, it’s technically more elegant, and it’s easier to use than Google’s alternative.”

Finally, he compares a number of product moves, e.g. Picasa vs Flickr, but it was this one that especially caught my attention:

Yahoo has quietly launched search.yahoo.com/cc, a search engine engineered to find and index Creative Commons material. To do this, Yahoo must be indexing the web for data called RDF - a highly advanced, potentially powerful technology that Google has said it isn’t going to touch.

Yahoo even wins the googlefight.

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2 Responses to “Yahoo vs Google”

  1. Lisa Says:
    April 19th, 2005 at 00:00

    Hi Dave,

    Have you seen this site: http://yagoohoogle.com/ ?
    My son Jacob discovered it and it’s his new favorite search site
    (supplanting gizoogle.com, which only a 15-year-old could love).

  2. Dave Says:
    April 21st, 2005 at 02:02

    Hi Lisa,

    No, it’s new to me, thanks for that. The whois entry I found shows the domain name created on March 30th — Jacob is very fast to find things!

    A firefox trick: I hooked a firefox keyword yh to http://yagoohoogle.com/search.php?q=%s, and now I get both searches for the price of one “yh some keywords” in the location bar.

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