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Today’s New York Times<\/i> included an article about Yahoo!<\/a>‘s
\npitch to gain ground on the popular search engine Google<\/a>.
\nI got snagged on the premise suggested by the article’s title: "The Search Engine That Isn’t a Verb, Yet."<\/a>
\nAnother way: Yahoo! will scale to new grandeur when its name gets used as a
\nverb–a term to singularly describe the vast actions of web searching. How
\nwould that sound? <\/p>\n

Last week, Yahoo finally replaced Google’s search results with its
\n home-brewed search engine, which uses a robot, called Slurp, to read Web
\n pages. Experts say Yahoo’s new search engine is credible and roughly
\n comparable to Google’s. And more important, Yahoo appears committed to the
\n sort of engineering work that is needed to improve the quality of Web
\n searches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the tech’s in place. Slurp? Yes, Slurp will suck up what’s
\nleft in the bottom of the search cauldron, yield its dregish results just
\nfine. But until Yahoo! gets an "I’m feeling lucky!" button,
\nwell, there’s not much to compare. Plus, with a name like Yahoo!, I can’t
\nimagine using it as a verb any time soon. Maybe it’s the voiceless
\nconsonants. As long as Google’s pair of hard |g|s are soliciting search
\nqueries, that’s where my action will remain. Yahoo! chief exec Terry Semel
\nregards his company’s latest venture as a bona fide contender in the all-or-nothing clash of the search engines, a kind of Algorithm Smack Down. From
\nthe article: "Mr. Semel, characteristically, declined to talk about Google
\nor any other competitors, just as he would not discuss battles of media titans.
\nBut that doesn’t mean he is not competitive. ‘I am not one who likes to be
\nfashionable at the moment,’ he said. ‘I want to win the race.’" I’m
\nnot sure if I’ll know, so will somebody tell me when the race is finished? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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