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Source: The Wall Street Journal

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RE: Yahoo blaming MS
By drycrust3 on 5/8/2013 3:48:20 PM , Rating: 3
Yahoo is blaming Microsoft for its lack of growth. The search engine provided doesn't make any difference to the user.

For a lot of searches it isn't so much the search engine as the parameters used by the search engine because it is almost certain that if you looked at the top results produced by Google in Bing or Yandex then those results would be somewhere there in the million or so results they found, but maybe many pages away, and vice versa of course.
To me one reason I use Bing is because they easily provide search results for just New Zealand (where I live), which neither Google or Yahoo offer.
So the main reason anyone uses a search engine other than Google, other than for reasons like "distrust", is because they want different results from what Google offer, so for Yahoo the answer isn't to produce the same results as Google and Bing, it is to produce different results, and you don't need a different database for that, because for most search engines the 1 million search results is largely the same, what you need is to use your own search parameters, where the top results you present are more or less unique to you.
For example, why not do what Bing does and breakdown results by country (for international users) or by city (say you are looking parts for your car), or why not provide different search parameter options (no, not hidden in some secret menu, on the first screen), so you might have one called "online shopping", where the search results are more online purchase oriented, one called "city" where the results are more your city relevant, e.g. local businesses or events or movies, one called "educational", where the results are more reference and encyclopedia oriented, one called "general" which uses the normal search parameters, etc? You don't need Google's database for that, Bing's will do.

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