YAHOO! or GOOGLE?

Which is better? Who offers better services? Reliability? Can you live without YAHOO! or GOOGLE? Besides YAHOO! or GOOGLE which is your other favorite search engine? Or is YAHOO! or GOOGLE your favorite?

YAHOO! or GOOGLE?
My answer is google for the following reasons:





Pros of Google:





As a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.





For makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.





Google also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.





The relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.





Google has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.





Cons of Google:





However, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.





Also, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.





Due to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.





Yahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker. http://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?quer...
Reply:I like Yahoo because I have used Yahoo Email for many years (8+ years), and Yahoo provides so many services now that I can find almost everything I need, such as search, news, map, weather, music, job listing, new cars, local services, and much more. I can live without Yahoo but could have many inconvenience. I log in Yahoo everyday.





For search engine, Yahoo and Google seem similar to me. I use both sometimes. I heard that Yahoo has more pages indexed. You may find something at Yahoo that Google does not have.





Finally, Yahoo is my favorite.
Reply:Yahoo has always been my favorite but sometimes Google is more comprehensive. I use Google as a back up plan when Yahoo doesn't give me what I want.
Reply:Google is my favorite search engine...it's easy to use and clean of ads and stuff like that.
Reply:well they are both really good. but if i search for something i go with yahoo. i use to go with google but yahoo makes it easyer and has more services with your search. if google can out with more services i would go with them. maybe. google is definatly my backup
Reply:google is definitaly a better search engine cuz its so simple and cuz it has the images. but i dont think i'd b able 2 live without my calender addresses mail and tv schedule.
Reply:YAHOO OF COURSE
Reply:I love yahoo functionality and services... Yahoo email I've had forever and love it. I use Google for all searching though (as a start point)...I never use Yahoo for searching.
Reply:Well google is the famoust and richest site ever but yahoo is the biggest site