{"id":26,"date":"2006-02-10T20:34:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/were-sick-of-seeing-yahoo-employees-with-google-on-their-home-pages\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:34:36","slug":"were-sick-of-seeing-yahoo-employees-with-google-on-their-home-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/were-sick-of-seeing-yahoo-employees-with-google-on-their-home-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re sick of seeing Yahoo employees with Google on their home pages !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caterina.net\/\">Caterina<\/a> pointed me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleywag.com\">ValleyWag<\/a> posting with this title:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleywag.com\/tech\/yahoo\/searching-across-the-tracks-150240.php\">Searching across the tracks<\/a>: We&#8217;re sick of seeing Yahoo employees with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/\">Google on their home pages<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Amr Homepage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/ScreenShot039.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image24\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Amr Homepage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/ScreenShot039.thumbnail.gif\" width=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were referring to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/\"> my homepage<\/a> which does feature a search box for <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?q=amr+awadallah\">Google Scholar<\/a>. Well, I did mention in a previous blog of mine that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/13\/\">I love Google Scholar<\/a> and unfortunately Yahoo does not have an equivalent product. Note that ValleyWag later on made another blog posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleywag.com\/tech\/remainders\/remainders-polystyrene-cups-free-lunch-152203.php\">acknowledging my google miss prediction<\/a> (sorry, cant help but keep rubbing\u00a0it in \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I have to admit that this is not the only Google Search Box that I use. I have a side family business for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asfory.com\/\">Egypt<\/a> and on that site I use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/ws-overview\">Google Adsense Search Box<\/a>. Even\u00a0though <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/info\/ysearchbox_introduction.html\">Yahoo does have an equivalent search box<\/a>, it does not pay me a share of the revenue for the searches the site generates (btw,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindsack.com\/?p=34\">SpiffY!Search<\/a> is an even cooler implementation of an in-page yahoo search box).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/ScreenShot040.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image25\" height=\"67\" alt=\"Egypt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/ScreenShot040.thumbnail.gif\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Hopefully one day yahoo will offer competitive products and I will switch right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8212; amr<\/p>\n<p>PS: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/4695148.stm\">Egypt Football (aka Soccer) team won the African Cup yesterday, 1000 congrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterina pointed me to a ValleyWag posting with this title: &#8220;Searching across the tracks: We&#8217;re sick of seeing Yahoo employees with Google on their home pages&#8221; They were referring to my homepage which does feature a search box for Google Scholar. Well, I did mention in a previous blog of mine that I love Google [&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-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}