Will yahoo follow Microsoft ?

**bogart** · 29 December, 2009, 22:36 PM

Originally Posted by DomainMagnate

Just went there and did some searches for fun and you know what? It's actually not that bad. In fact similar results to Google and rather relevant. Maybe Google is just overrated?

Lycos is owned by a Korean company and gets 12 - 15 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S. according to their website. The results are relevant but lacking the secret sauce of Google on keyword searches that I am familiar with.

**jmburman** · 30 December, 2009, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by DomainMagnate

Just went there and did some searches for fun and you know what? It's actually not that bad. In fact similar results to Google
and rather relevant. Maybe Google is just overrated?

Hahaa! it would be good!.....its actually running Google software!

Bogart....lycos and a few other search companies actually have a licence to use google software!! So what you see on lycos is GOOGLE!

**Will.Spencer** · 30 December, 2009, 20:03 PM

Last I knew, Lycos search was powered by Ask.com.

**jmburman** · 30 December, 2009, 21:02 PM

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Last I knew, Lycos search was powered by Ask.com.

Ok...I actually got the info from 'The Google Story' but it was probably referring to the paid listings and not the actually results themselves?

Who Powers Whom? Search Providers Chart - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

EDIT - http://www.gordonchoi.com/askcom-pow...earch-20061113 first para also confirms that Google did power the paid listings for a period of time

**garfish** · 31 December, 2009, 05:28 AM

people are used to google, it would take forever to change what they're use to.

**javanx3d** · 31 December, 2009, 18:37 PM

Didn't Yahoo already make their deal with the devil (errr Microsft)...
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal News - The New York Times
Competition is never bad, but what do you think the search engine share needs to be to make Bing/Yahoo relevant? 30% ? 50?
Cheers,
James