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Google vs. Yahoo mashups
Search wars are on, mashup style. Google and Yahoo go head to head and compare mapping and search results in these two beautiful mashups.
Gahooyoogle pits both of the major search engine results, displaying them side by side for comparison. Some of the search results were shocking. For instance, with a search of "Google", I was shocked at some of the differences. For instance, Yahoo directed me to search using Yahoo as the first result, while searching for "Yahoo" in both browsers displayed proper search results in Google. In the image search category, Yahoo displayed no images for the recently unveiled "blackberry pearl 8100", while Google images were overloaded with them.
Sergey Chernyshev built a little tool that puts both Yahoo and Google maps together. They are pretty much similar; however, I feel that Google has cleaner lines. What I like about searching in Google maps is that they have so nicely added major areas such as schools, museums, and local landmarks. Sergey's site nicely displays the actual mapping co-ordinates as well. A nice use of the Yahoo, and Google mapping API's.
Google fan aside and seeing results side by side, I think it's safe to say that Google outweighs Yahoo in both search and map results.
Some screenshots after the jump..
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