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Google vs. Yahoo mashups

google vs yahooSearch 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..

[Via GoogleOperatingSystem]

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Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!

Flickr adds mapping, geotagging

Flickr map
Today Flickr seriously pumped up its geotagging support and added Yahoo! Maps integration. The announcement in the Flickr blog links to a few screencast tutorials that make geotagging, i.e. associating photos with particular locations on the map, look pretty easy. It's done through the Flash Ajax-based Organizr tool, and basically you select a bunch of your photos and then drag them to the location you want to tag them with on the map. Similarly, you can explore other people's photos with a new map interface. You can go to flickr.com/map to see everybody's photos and search by location and/or tag. Naturally, it's all done through the Yahoo! Maps API, which means you can zoom and pan around as well as see a satellite photo or hybrid view of the map. The Flickr update also includes integration with Upcoming.org: you can now tag your photos with a special tag for an Upcoming.org event and they'll be displayed on the Upcoming page for that event. Neat.

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Filed under: Web services

iPod Directions: Driving directions on your iPod

iPod DirectionsI would call iPod Directions a cool Yahoo! Maps/iPod mash-up, but it's not really a mash-up at all. It's a web service that fetches directions from Yahoo! Maps and gives them to you as a ZIP file full of images to drop into your iTunes photo folder. It's both simple and ingenius, because all it does is grab the images and text directly from Yahoo! Maps' turn-by-turn directions, convert the text into images, and serve them to you together in a format perfect for a slideshow on your iPod. Of course, this comes with the same caveat as plain old Yahoo!/Google/whatever Maps, i.e you have to remember to get directions before you leave. The major advantage of having them on your iPod rather instead of printing them out is, I suppose compactness. If you're going on a road trip with a dozen out-of-the-way stops, carrying your iPod (which you carry around anyway) might be preferable to a sheaf of printouts. Now, what would really be cool would be if it did speech synthesis and gave you an MP3 so you didn't have to look at the iPod while driving.

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