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Archive for August 16th, 2009
Stock search — how would you do this one?
Leo P asked: Please take a look at AGU 1 year price chart. I want to find other stocks with similar tech characteristics over last one year, any other price range or market cap.
How would you tell that to the search engine?
Why do people prefer Google over Yahoo! for searching?
awrhodes84 asked: I don’t work for Yahoo! or have any tangible stake in the company, however, everyone is always talking about ‘Googling’ this or that and I don’t understand why. Google’s homepage is devoid of any information or services that would make me even consider using it as a search engine. When I come to Yahoo’s home page, it knows who I am, tells me I have new mail, shows me the news, and provides me with feature stories among other things. Furthermore, Yahoo and Google both take the same amount of time to load. On a personal note, I think Google looks like a novice high schooler designed it, while Yahoo could do without the shameless amount of advertising on its home and My Yahoo pages.
Further confusing me is that Yahoo is the most visited domain on the internet, yet Google controls over 60% of the search engine market. Are people actually using Yahoo for its services and then going to Google to search? I really don’t get it…
Continue Reading »How can I create my own search engine like Yahoo! or Google?
David C asked: Plain & Simple:
1. I want to create my own search engine.
2. I want to custom-brand the search engine.
3. Yes, in other words, I want to create my own “Yahoo!” or Google.
4. I am not interested in hearing your views regarding market dominance and how it interferes with the feasibility of this project.
5. I do not want the Google custom search module on my site, as it is NOT custom branded AND it limits my searches to the Google world.
Everybody, I want to thank you all for your answers. I’ve gotten some really useful input from some of you. Please, keep the answers coming, I think this is a question that many people are interested in.

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