May 20, 2004, 4:59 pm

Lately Google seemed to expand to a monopol position in the search engine area while steadily assimilating new teams and markets and competitors like Yahoo did not seem to like it , less than a week ago Yahoo bought Inktomi and started its own search engine dispensing of the google services , before that Yahoo was using AltaVista since 1996 , Inktomi since 1998 and finally Google since 2002 , to power it's web search .

But that is not all , Yahoo recently bought overture in a attempt to also concure google in the steadily growing PPC market , furthermore they bought AltaVista and Alltheweb/FAST and it seem's that they are having a go at the search engine supremacy which is not to be taken lightly

So at this moment the 2 giants in the search engine business are Google and Yahoo , and i am personally glad of the increasing competition presented by yahoo even tho' my homepage is set to google.com for 6 years now and it won't change soon

A cause why Yahoo might have dumped Google might lay in the popularity decrease of the search engine giant due to it's ongoing scandals pertaining Gmail , Pagerank , drugs , google bombing and a lot of other not the least relevant issues


Google Search http://google.com

Firms/technologies bought/integrated into google :
http://www.sprinks.com/index.htm Sprinks
http://www.appliedsemantics.com AppliedSemantics

Search engines that are powered by google :
http://search.aol.com/ AOL Search
http://www.earthlink.net/ Earthlink
http://teoma.com/ Teoma
http://www.iwon.com/ Iwon
http://www.hotbot.com/ Hotbot
http://www.go.com/ GO

Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com

Firms/technologies bought/integrated into yahoo :
http://www.inktomi.com Inktomi
http://www.overture.com Overture

Search engines that are powered by yahoo :
http://www.altavista.com/ AltaVista
http://www.alltheweb.com/ Alltheweb
http://search.msn.com/ MSN Search
http://cnn.com/ CNN
http://excite.com/ Excite
http://www.kanoodle.com/ Kanoodle
http://infospace.com/ Infospace