The New Yahoo in Town

Search February 18th, 2004

So far I’ve found Yahoo’s new search to be for the most part comparable with Google in most respects. Even the interface is minimalist. Well, that is in relation to other more gregarious Yahoo interfaces.

I even like the XML/RSS restrictive search features. Albeit it would be cooler to be able to get the search results as an RSS feed.

However, I found that Yahoo’s image search is suspiciously similar to Google’s.
For example, compare these image search results on Google and Yahoo.

Although it wasn’t apparent from the site, perhaps they’re still using Google in some areas.

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