jalouda

as far as i know, yahoo have basically switched from using inktomi to using google to supplement their listings.
basically there were and are 2 strands to the listings: the human selected directory (harder to get into) and the spidered remainder (easy to get into). when you search using the search box at yahoo rather than looking through the categories, you often get a bit of both in the results. if the sites in results have the familiar category>subcategory etc text above them, it's a link from the human controlled directory and if it doesn't, it just means the site is in the other bit.

at least that is the way it worked when it was yahoo and inktomi - the deal with google may differ in some ways.

as for google itself - i am a big fan. i use it all the time and find that it delivers fewer and more relevant results - the technology behind it returns results using a different method to many other search engines apparently and in my opinion, the google way is better

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