Nate Lanxon
Nate Lanxon is CNET UK's Senior Editor of News and Features, and covers every aspect of technology for Crave. He also enjoys popular-science books, obscure Japanese animation and plays 'technical metal' on the drums, whatever that is.
Tuesday 19 February 2008, 11:11am
Official: Yahoo has NOT booted The Pirate Bay
There's plenty of buzz about Yahoo booting The Pirate Bay from its search results, but it's not entirely accurate. True, a search for 'The Pirate Bay' doesn't give you any results for the torrent site's homepage. But switch to advanced search and hit up, say, 'Spiderman 3', and request Yahoo to only look at the site 'thepiratebay.org', and you get plenty of results. Over 3,000 at the time of writing.
What's likely to have happened is that Yahoo tweaked something, which prevented casual browsers -- that's in the human sense, not the software sense -- from stumbling across homepages it deems, in a Chinese government-esque fashion, inappropriate for the masses.
Anyone who truly wishes to make Yahoo an engine worth using simply needs to force it. Someone tell Microsoft to force Yahoo to accept its offer, and maybe it can get on with ruining Flickr and del.icio.us for us all.
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A lecturer in a uni class of mine last week, asked for a show of hands as to who used yahoo as their main search engine, out of a room of 50-21/22 year old's...not a single person in the room used yahoo.
Posted by rich on Wed 20 February, 2008 2:10 PM
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What's Yahoo?
Posted by James on Wed 20 February, 2008 5:34 PM
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ahoo puts metaphorical gun to head and pull de trigger. How stupid can you get. I stopped using Yahoo because my top search results always ended up with a product for sale, not necessarily what I was searching for. The billion dollar implode continues.
Posted by Very funny on Tue 26 February, 2008 1:10 PM
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