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I personally find Yahoo Search a hot mess and the results I get never seem very comprehensive compared to other search engines. And I'm not talking just regular searches - news searches in particular.
 
After Google got caught with their pants down (giving away personal information) a few years ago I switched back to yahoo on all my devices, iOS and OSX. Yahoo works perfectly fine. I only use Google to connect with a Google group that I am a member of.
 
Gosh I love the idea of Yahoo! and Apple partnering more and more. Yahoo is the most exciting services company out there right now, in my opinion.
 
Please no. The only thing Yahoo has done right in the past decade is their weather app interface.

Still angry that Flickr has become an unmitigated disaster.

Praying Marissa doesn't test her design chops on tumblr.
 
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Yahoo Weather is always wrong where I live, sometimes 10 degrees (C) off. They don't seem to do things particularly well so I think google should stay default search engine for the time being.

Yahoo! weather data comes from The Weather Channel - an equally unfocused, has-been company.
 
After a rocky start, I'd say perfectly fine.

Lack of transit is such an epic fail. Not only don't they show you where the stations are anymore, they don't show you which trains are at which stations. And how long ago did they purchase HopStop?

Under Cook, Apple focused too much on making it a nice environment to work in, instead of keeping up with the furious pace of technology. Apple has gotten slow and lazy, sadly.
 
Yahoo are bleeding money and regardless of these internal projects they cannot compete with Google. I don't use Yahoo as a default search engine and I certainly don't want them on my iPhone or iPad!

If Apple did this it would be a bad move for consumers, if so then what, Mac default engine?

And just how would it be a bad move for consumers? :confused:

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Yahoo! weather data comes from The Weather Channel - an equally unfocused, has-been company.

And how revolutionary should a weather company be other than to forecast the weather properly?
 
After a rocky start, I'd say perfectly fine.

Only Apple knows but I'd bet the majority of iOS users use Apple Maps. I know I do - they generally get me where I'm going and are easy to use. I drive places so the other stuff (transit and walking) are not priorities for me. Traffic is also quite good too.

Apple Maps isn't perfectly fine. The one key area where Google Maps destroys Apple Maps is understanding different search terms describing the same landmark. I saw this first hand when I was in Italy in January.

Oh sure, Apple Maps could have found what I was looking for if I had entered the Italian names of famous landmarks.
 
Yahoo actually beat Google for the past 6 months in a row for overall search traffic. I think last month was the only month that Google beat Yahoo again by a fraction!

Here is just one article, but you can search for traffic results.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/yahoo-vs-google_n_3796402.html

The Google empire needs to be taught a lesson!

seems a key segment is missing from this analysis

As AllThingsD notes, traffic from mobile phones -- an increasingly popular device for surfing the web -- is not included in this batch of data.
 
This makes so much sense. I guarantee this deal is done by the end of the year. They could probably buy Yahoo for about ~$50B.
 
Yahoo can build a very different product on top of the Bing engine, so that's untrue that there would be no difference.

I could only go by what the Internet says, since I don't use Yahoo.

Yahoo Search, originally referred to as Yahoo provided Search interface, would send queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of sites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo brand. Originally, none of the actual web crawling and storage/retrieval of data was done by Yahoo itself. In 2001, the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later was powered by Google until 2004, when Yahoo Search became independent.

On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo Search.[3]

But you're right. Having now tested both, it appears Yahoo reshuffles the order of some results.
 
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