{"id":104,"date":"2007-03-09T02:47:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/yahoo-vs-google\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T02:47:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:47:31","slug":"yahoo-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/yahoo-vs-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo vs Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My previous post was about why I switched from Netflix to Blockbuster. Eric Colson was a coworker of mine at Yahoo for the last 5 years, but a couple of months ago he left and joined Netflix :). <\/p>\n<p>Below is an account of which Yahoo vs Google services he now uses (text that follows is what Eric sent to me with very minor edits):<\/p>\n<p>So, in response to you switching form Netflix to BlockBuster, I would post the following &#8230; but I don&#8217;t have a blog \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summary of changes I have made since leaving yahoo.  None of it was deliberate &#8230;etc.  I just started venturing out of Yahoo now that i don&#8217;t work there and found that I prefer some others. Take it as customer feedback \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Email:<\/strong> no change&#8230;  Sticking with Yahoo due to my account.   I do have a gmail account, but only use it occasionally.  I did have to turn off the Y! beta because it broke too much!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maps\/Local:<\/strong> switched to Google &#8220;most of the time&#8221;.  Its better performance, and &#8220;usually&#8221; better index of local businesses.  However, I do like Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;send to phone&#8221; feature (not sure if G has the equivalent).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web Search<\/strong> &#8212; hybrid.  Its about 50-50 now.\n<ul>\n<li>I use Google as a default for researching topics simply because its faster .. the performance is hands-down much better than Y!.<\/li>\n<li>I do like Google&#8217;s clean page better as well.<\/li>\n<li>I think the algo relevancy is about the same between the two. <\/li>\n<li>When I am interested in paid search listings (commercial queries), I use Google just because it has mind-share for advertisers.<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo is better for spelling suggestions (which i need a lot)<\/li>\n<li>I still use yahoo search a lot because I use the yahoo toolbar a lot (see toolbar section)<\/li>\n<li>I also use Yahoo search a lot because of the open shortcuts.  I even use it to get to my Google services :).  Really-  i have a shortcut for &#8220;!gdocs&#8221; to get me to my Google Document repository<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toolbar<\/strong> &#8211; i have both, but use yahoo more so that i can leverage my open shortcuts<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookmarks\/Social Search<\/strong> &#8212; I still use Y! myweb &#8230; can&#8217;t beat it \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>Documents (Word processing and spreadsheets)<\/strong> &#8211; I use Google docs.  Yahoo has no equivalent.  I did replace some of my yahoo &#8220;notepad&#8221; docs with Google docs and rarely use Y! briefcase now<\/li>\n<li><strong>Notepad<\/strong> &#8212; despite, the fact that I moved *some* of the longer notes to Google docs, i still use yahoo notepad. This is just because it so simple.  Google has a notepad widget, but for whatever reason, i don&#8217;t like.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finance<\/strong> &#8211; Yahoo (love the new beta and streaming quotes)<\/li>\n<li><strong>News<\/strong> &#8211; neither Y! nor G &#8230;  bloglines (thanks amr for telling me about it)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shopping<\/strong> &#8211; yahoo &#8230; hate frugal &#8230; but still don&#8217;t like Y! Shopping either.  It always seems to fail me when I have a simple task for comparison shopping &#8230; or to sort a list of items &#8230;etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Travel<\/strong> &#8211; abandoned Y! Travel for sidestep (tried it because Rob Solomon went there.. ended up liking it)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Browser<\/strong> &#8230; I switched to Firefox.  This has nothing to do with Y! or G, but just could not take IE crashing anymore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Movie Rentals<\/strong>  &#8230; Netflix of course&#8230; i have a free account with 8 movies out at once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My previous post was about why I switched from Netflix to Blockbuster. Eric Colson was a coworker of mine at Yahoo for the last 5 years, but a couple of months ago he left and joined Netflix :). Below is an account of which Yahoo vs Google services he now uses (text that follows is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}