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Yahoo is More Popular than Sex

Posted in News, Tech by Dan at 10:00 am
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WHA?! Google’s own trending indicates that over the course of the past year the search term “Yahoo” became more popular than “sex”, making it the #1 query on Google.

Yahoo also is facing the same problem with the term “Google” taking the top search spot on their engine. However, it seems that Yahoo is not playing fairly.

Below you will find what a normal Yahoo search result page looks like:

yahoonormal.jpg

However when you search for Google, you are greeted with a second search bar, seemingly diluting the results (as illustrated below):

yahoogoogle.jpg

Hmmmmmmmmm. Is that fair? What do you think of “Yahoo” replacing “Sex” as the most searched term on Google?

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4 Responses to “Yahoo is More Popular than Sex”

  1. Hax says:

    Who on earth searches for a search engine he/she obviously already knows on another search engine?

  2. Dan says:

    Hax, Obviously a TON of people. I know my folks do.

  3. Don Wilson says:

    I think that’s absolutely fair. Let them put two search boxes on their pages, who cares ;)

  4. Henry says:

    My step dad refuses to type URLs into the location bar. Instead he goes to msn.com (his homepage) and searches for it.

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