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Daniel_Newby
on July 28, 2011
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Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising r...
On Bing, "search" goes to Yahoo.
DanielRibeiro
on July 28, 2011
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Which (unsurprisingly, as noted by the replies) itself yields Yahoo when you search "search" [1]
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http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AjCXgFY8lSKJSSw5JLdr1HSb...
reinhardt
on July 28, 2011
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So Yahoo is the fixed point of search engines.
mukyu
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Yahoo uses Bing.
antimora
on July 28, 2011
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But Google comes before Bing in the search results.
mukyu
on July 29, 2011
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The point was that since Yahoo uses Bing for its search you should not expect different results from Bing (that is to say, there is not point searching 'search' on Yahoo after you did it on Bing).
d0m
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