Yahoo or Microsoft or Google?

Question

whichevr is ur choice and why

Answer 1

Firstly, I think that all three are very good. At the moment my choice would be Yahoo.

Google's great selling point was its search engine with the complex algorithm that tended to produce relevant answers. At one stage that seemed to work well, but lately I find that any question that I ask gets bogged down with commercial sites.

When I search a topic I don't want to know what the same 40 web retailers want me to know about an iPod or a Pioneer CDJ1000, I want to know stuff that they DON'T want me to know.

Of course this will be tricky for any search engine. Commercial sites will make a business to come top of the pile somehow.

Yahoo's answer to this seems to be to deliver content from people. They are doing this by empowering tools like delicious and my web, through Yahoo answers and Yahoo groups. "The social internet" as some people call it.

I think in the long run this will pay dividends.

MSN has exceptional web content properties. Things like WebMD and Encarta deliver great information on many topics without having to trawl through gibberish about collidal silver and jojoba oil. It gets stuck though if you want info on something like a Pioneer CDJ1000, I doubt that MSN will ever have content on that.

Yahoo could really really do with something like Encarta or Wikipedia. That's a gaping hole in its property.

Google seems to have recognised the problems with its model and is trying to make revenue through being an "always-on" store of information through things like GMail and storing all your data on a remote server.

I think the privacy isssues to do with this will be resolved eventually and I think it is A Good Thing.

Yahoo are hot on their trail though, as is Microsoft. Their mail services have been upgraded vastly and I think at the moment at least, Yahoo is ahead of GMail.

I doubt this is going to be a lasting point of advantage for Google.

Kudos to Google though for taking user privacy seriously in rejecting to disclose user information when asked recently.

Yahoo and MSN will have to get better at that.

Answer 2

Yahoo for answers.yahoo and I love their messenger.

Microsoft msn is good for updates and to look up windows information.

I use google for information. if I dont know the answer, I google it and I will find out.

Answer 3

Yahoo for home page, stocks, news, weather etc.

Google for searching

MSN I hardly ever use. It is O.K. but nothing outstanding.

Answer 4

google's for searching
yahoo's for yahoo messenger
(i hate msn)