Search with Yahoo instead of Google?

October 21, 2005 1:00 PM

It has been demonstrated many times that when searching MeFi, Yahoo does a better job than Google-- maybe the search box on the homepage should use Yahoo?
posted by gwint to Feature Requests at 1:00 PM (19 comments total)

No way, google rocks. I don't care how much evidence how display to the contrary. My blinders have been installed, sir!
posted by Dean Keaton at 1:13 PM on October 21, 2005

how=you.
posted by Dean Keaton at 1:13 PM on October 21, 2005

i bet yahoo wouldn't have made that typo
posted by cortex at 1:16 PM on October 21, 2005

Yeah, I'll do this.

I'm also going to just have one giant search box on the various search pages, with options to search via yahoo (default), google, or the craptacular mefi search engine.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:19 PM on October 21, 2005

I really don't want to suggest any sort of post-poniment, but as a back-burner issue have you considered (outsourcing, perhaps) a rewrite of the internal search engine?
posted by cortex at 1:32 PM on October 21, 2005

Cool, thanks Matt.
posted by gwint at 2:06 PM on October 21, 2005

Yeah, I don't mind outsourcing. Who wants to write a search engine?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:11 PM on October 21, 2005

Fine. But I refuse to start using the term "Yahoo-fu." I won't do it.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:52 PM on October 21, 2005

Who wants to write a search engine?
The one reality TV show I might watch.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:07 PM on October 21, 2005

mathowie: I'm working on a search engine server thingy that might come in handy for Metafilter. Directly, it's for Scoop, but when it's done it should be generic enough that it would probably work for Metafilter. Email me if you want details.
posted by Captain_Tenille at 3:15 PM on October 21, 2005

geddit? post-poniment?
posted by cortex at 3:20 PM on October 21, 2005

How about yahoo-oso then?
posted by mischief at 3:54 PM on October 21, 2005

Yafoo?
posted by blue_beetle at 4:08 PM on October 21, 2005

Gesundheit.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:12 PM on October 21, 2005

Do you Yahoo? [yodel]
posted by keswick at 4:32 PM on October 21, 2005

I'm short on Ya-hooey?
posted by reflecked at 4:42 PM on October 21, 2005

I've had better luck with Clusty, which is apparently a search engine aggregator. Warning: at least one of the SOs it aggregates, Wisenut, may be evil. It has been reported to ignore robots.txt.

Clusty has found stuff on MeFi that I knew was there, but that Google couldn't find. It has also found stuff elsewhere that Google misses. It's where I go next if a Google search fails.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 7:10 PM on October 21, 2005

Ya-fu works for me. And thanks, Matt, for making Yahoo the default. It makes much more sense.
posted by mediareport at 9:23 PM on October 21, 2005

Yahu?
posted by scarabic at 9:49 PM on October 21, 2005