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Podge
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
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Snitz Forums Admin
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JJenson
Advanced Member
USA
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 Posted - 01 February 2008 : 11:30:00
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| I hope this will make yahoo better. The only reason I don't use yahoo now is it just seems way to busy I like how google is simpler. |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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MarkJH
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1722 Posts |
Posted - 01 February 2008 : 18:07:16
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Only £20bn in English! 
I've never really liked Yahoo!. Even in the good old days, I preferred Altavista, Infoseek, Excite and Hotbot to it. Wow, I bet there's some people reading this who've never even heard of those. Anyone remember Northern Light? 
Sorry, going off track a bit here... |
Bandlink.net - http://www.bandlink.net/
Bandlink Music Forums - http://www.bandlink.net/forum/ |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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MarkJH
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1722 Posts |
Posted - 02 February 2008 : 09:39:53
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Yeah, 2000 was about the time they ruined it. Just compare that to just the year before:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125093146/ www.altavista.com/ (remove the space)
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All the search engines back then were bloated.
Apart from Google, they still are! Okay, most of us don't have to deal with dial-up anymore but does every search engine have to be a portal?
edit: fixed link. Forgot that Snitz doesn't like archive.org links |
Bandlink.net - http://www.bandlink.net/
Bandlink Music Forums - http://www.bandlink.net/forum/ |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 February 2008 : 10:19:26
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Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
Yep, they were early, but I can't say I've used them for a search in the best part of a decade, as their idea to list sites in a directory was soon abused by idiots (before they started spidering sites). I agree, altavista.digital.com stole the lead from them quite quickly, but then Google came along and did it better!
If Yahoo and Live searches combine efforts, there's every chance they could beat Google, which is what MS clearly want more than anything! MS are still #1 on the OS front, Google #1 online, and they can see the increased competition from Google and online services as connection speed becomes less of an issue, and want a slice of that! |
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mdelcour2000
Junior Member
United States
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Posted - 02 February 2008 : 14:11:01
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| Yahoo says that they may NOT take the offer, remember they've rejected it once already! :) |
http://lacledeforum.com/
"Never get so busy doing the work of the kingdom that you forget who the King is" |
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 10 February 2008 : 11:44:19
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Nice to know that I'm not the only UF reader floating around here.  |
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SiSL
Average Member
Turkey
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mdelcour2000
Junior Member
United States
133 Posts |
Posted - 10 February 2008 : 15:46:11
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| REJECTED AGAIN! But, they say if Microsoft wants it that bad, they will be willing to pay more! |
http://lacledeforum.com/
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