Does anyone still use Yahoo as a search engine? Whenever I get the urge to use yahoo for some reason I stop after only a few searches. The reason for this is their horrible results. When I use a search engine today I am looking for an answer to a question and I want it now. With yahoo the result I actually want sometimes is a few pages deep. This is unacceptable today.
What google has done marvelously is create an algorithm that makes it very easy to find what you are looking for. Live, formally MSN, has come a long way in the last year giving similar results. Yahoo seems to be stagnant. People have said that Yahoo has updated their system to provide better results; I don’t see it.
The reason for bringing this up is that I have been testing out web browsers as of late and a lot of them use Yahoo as the default search engine. Some of these browsers I can’t use as they make it too hard to switch to something else.
It is not like I hate yahoo, I actually think the company is great. They made a wonderful purchase in flickr which they did not totally destroy. Also their finance solutions were the only good source for a long time. I still use yahoo over google for looking up stocks. Many people are switching away, but I find that yahoo is still the best in this regard.
Let me know in the comments if you still use Yahoo.
