Matthew Gifford

Funny you talk about being “Google-Free”..

I just finished listening to the Morning Coffee Notes from 11/01/2005 and was thinking to myself, “I need to get a new start page”.

isn’t yahoo much more craptastic than google?

No way. Google doesn’t really care about the developer community. Ultimately, this is bad for the end user. Listen to this podcast. Start at 8 minutes in.

As a developer, I had a really good experience dealing with Yahoo this summer. It was enough to get my loyalty.

it just seems like yahoo stuff has always been, hmm.

sort of, the internet for people who don’t know what they are doing? like, if my mom is gonna search the web, she’ll go to yahoo.com. you know?

the chintzy knick knacks of cyberspace.

you know what i mean?

I’ve always liked Yahoo! maps better than Google maps. Matt, what’s your primary search engine these days?

Jim, I would agree that in the past Yahoo has had second-rate products. However, just in the last year they’ve been doing a lot of good work. In my opinion, their search is every bit as good as Google’s now.

Brandi: Yahoo.

huh. really?

huh.

i noticed that they at least LOOK sharper now. but we are also coming from two different (but overlapping) worlds here.

Admittedly, Yahoo’s online email service is the only one I (halfway) trust. It’s not all bad.

The web in general is hard to search nowadays, but Google’s engine still does the best job. Sad, isn’t it. :-)

why dont you trust gmail?

THIS IS ALL NEW TO ME!

(caps used for funny factor)

GMail hasn’t been around long enough for me to trust, plus I’m always afraid of companies starting to charge for free services (like Apple’s .Mac fiasco). Since Google’s rep has become so bad, and knowing what the worst online email provider is like — big surprise, it’s Micro$oft’s Hotmail — I’m simply not putting my proverbial eggs in a basket that looks like it’s about to break.

And not those eggs. I’m male. I swear. I’d be too ugly a woman. :-)

there was a .Mac fiasco? i’m a late mac bloomer.

they did screw me outta my rebate though.

.Mac used to be totally free. I became dependant (professionally and privately) on the email address I had with them, and tho it wasn’t heavily used, it was — at the time — the only way for my clients to contact me. I found out it was locked out, and then when I heard what they wanted per month for it, I said screw it. It’s not the cost, it’s the principle.

Some may disagree on calling it a fiasco, but I don’t like being charged for free services. It was the first time I lost any respect for Apple.

that is indeed pretty crappy. i got into macs after that, summer of 2003, when paying for this email was just assumed.

Yahoo does better with relevent searches than Google anyway. (Prolly more cuz webmasters target google more than yahoo lately.) I recently gave up Google myself — the day there was a graphical ad on their search page for the Google toolbar — but still use it habitually. I’ve gone back to search.yahoo.com. Sometimes also use Clusty, cuz that whole clustering idea is interesting.