Caught this today when performing a search for other engines while on Yahoo. First time I’ve seen an engine attempt to keep their users from jumping to another engine, which is very common practice as indicated by my Actual Top 10 Search Terms of 2006 post.
I was performing a search for MSN search (or “Live”) in Yahoo because I didn’t have it in my Firefox search dropdown.
Here’s what I saw:
I wasn’t paying very close attention and started typing in my search into the Yahoo shortcut search box shown above. Notice it says: “You could go to MSN. Or you could stay here and get straight to your answers.”
I can’t recall seeing this before, so I decided to see if they were doing the same thing to Google (which has got to be one of the 10 most popular search terms on Yahoo):
Again, notice it says: “You could go to Google. Or you could stay here and get straight to your answers.”
Seems strange to have a Yahoo shortcut for something you were already immersed in. What do you think about this? Is it right? Would Yahoo be pissed if Microsoft or Google did the same?
December 19th, 2008 at 3:25 am
interesting i belive they wont have confident in them self lol!! but search in yaho sucks and Google rock’s but i love yahoo :)
December 29th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Seems like a sad effort to keep people on your site. I think it would be better if they just improved the search algorithms.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Who could have thought 10 years back that someday -Yahoo would have to borrow ideas to keep itself up-to-date!
Its just the worst form of imitation.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I quite like the idea, but I have always thought Yahoo search was below par, as compared with Google. Why do we all use Google? Because the search is much more relevant. Don’t even get me started on Live search.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:54 am
well , it’s getting funny now!
But I still love in google!
June 1st, 2009 at 11:53 pm
agree with Eli. yahoo appears not so professional in field of search engine. the fact is that googking something has been a part of most people when they have problems. so do i
July 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Yahoo is not professional they have nothing to offer.