Yahoo’s doorway is cluttered with nonsense. Half the time when I need to search for something, I won’t go to Yahoo. I need a simple search vs. seeing Paris Hilton’s un-makeup’d face when I go to do a search. Do I care about P.Hilton…no!, but the image and news gives me enough pause to sometimes forget what I was going to orginally look for.

This is exactly why I use Google for my search, email, and news aggregation. It’s easier, more useful to my daily activities and doesn’t present distractions.

I mostly use Google for most searches. But when I’m looking for information about a subject, I often use both of them because they both contain relevant sites but at different positions.

Most people I’ve heard that says Yahoo has less relevant results are either people who used their old search engine, or those who thinks Google’s rating is the only one that matters. You can’t expect both search engines to give identical results.

Try a search on http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html and see the differences

Which one would you rather start your day with – the one that takes almost 5 seconds to load (cable modem, with the newest Firefox), greets you with a big ad on the right-hand side, a whole “marketplace” section down the center, not to forget a “sponsored offer” line at the very top and a handful of idiotic celebrity stories or the one that takes one second to load and lay out and has no ads?

Has something that simple ever enter Yahoo’s execs’ minds? That may be (just may be) their homepage, and by extension, their brand sucks and more people are starting to realize that?

who knows what’s gonna happen next.

best regards!

Cheers, Aidan

The argument is not the page views, but stagnation is overall number of users. As the numbers stall, the page views have to go up substantially in order to make up for the loss/deferred revenues.