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Despite the browser wars, the newest annoyance is having to use Yahoo's search engine. I figured I would give it a few weeks and see how good it was compared to
by at-fates-hands 12y ago
Despite the browser wars, the newest annoyance is having to use Yahoo's search engine. I figured I would give it a few weeks and see how good it was compared to Google.
Two weeks in and I'm done with it. Almost every search is useless to me. Even just doing local searches was painful.
Type in pizza + your city and I got a bunch of ads and "Top 10 pizza places in (insert your city here)" and a ton of Yelp reviews. All I wanted was a list of pizza places near me.
I have a dozen other examples, but in a nutshell, it was just really poor at returning results I was expecting.
- Amezarak 12y ago> Despite the browser wars, the newest annoyance is having to use Yahoo's search engine. Have to? Changing the default search engine in Firefox is as simple as clicking on the search-box dropdown and selecting a different search engine. Two clicks.
- gtremper 12y agoGenerally, the number of clicks isn't the issue. Its knowing which clicks to make.
- Amezarak 12y agoSure, but in this case, we're talking about a dropdown marked on the main UI immediately next to the search box. It's not as of it's hidden. Anyone who realizes the search engine has changed is saavy enough to figure out how to change it.
- wutbrodo 12y agoYou would be surprised. "Obvious" UI hints that are intuitive for someone like you or me are not for a LOT of people. Some subset of those people is still likely to be able to notice that their searches now take them to a page that says "Yahoo" at the top instead of "Google".