If your doing a search on interwad use Yahoo!

peanut™

http://news.com.com/2061-10803_3-5824161.html?part=rss&tag=5824161&subj=news

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When most people think of Web search, they think of Google. But Yahoo said Monday that it has completed a vast expansion of its search engine index and now encompasses almost double that of its main competitor.

Yahoo's Tim Mayer said Monday on the company's Search Blog that it now indexes more than 20 billion documents and images. That's almost twice the 11.3 billion Google publicly says it currently spans.

Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo's database, 19 billion are documents, 1.5 billion images and more than 50 million audio and video files, the company said.

Until now, Yahoo didn't normally talk publicly about the size of its search index, but according to the Associated Press, company observers had pegged the number at no higher than 8 billion documents.

"This is a great reason for more people to check us out," Yahoo Vice President of Products Eckhart Walther told the AP. "We are more comprehensive than anyone else out there."

To be sure, Yahoo's supplanting Google as king of the search indexes--in size at least--is a surprise, and gives it a lot of grist for touting its search feature as a solid alternative to Google's. That has been a public relations challenge for Yahoo since it unveiled its own search feature last year after years of licensing Google's.

"The Google brand stands for search and (Yahoo's) strategy has been to undercut that brand," Forrester Researcher analyst Charlene Li said to the AP.

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KDR_11k

Damn cluttered frontpage...

gauss

yeah. cluttered page.. and if anything, i'm not using it on principle of them calling the new tool "search blog". barf.

Toomas

I wonder if it can actually find more useful info than google or they just threw in 12 billion pron results to make numbers BIG.

CheapAlert

I tried the "gargoyle" image search and the results are barely different, plus yahoo simply digs up more shop images than artwork gallery images.

JKMakowka

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In the upper right corner (at least that of the .de yahoo website) there is a link to set it to a search mode, that looks almost like google.

But I think we really need to get away from these search monopolys, now matter what Google wants to make you believe ('do no evil' ).
It has been proven serveral times that all of the big search engines (namely Google, Yahoo and MSN) are guilty of active (political) censoring (not only in China), and that is a huge threat to the freedom of the internet.

A good start would be a P2P search engine like http://www.yacy.net/yacy/

But it needs more users to be really useable.

Snowfly

Never use the website. If you're on Firefox use the search bar instead.

StrangeFate

I've always had http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?fr=fp-top&p= as my start page. Like better than googles for more specific searching.

hawken

when you search for something on the internet, don't you just get 100 documents with exactly the same data in anyway? Seems to me like the mojority of the internet is copies of it's self... so who wants more?