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  • daftie, on 03/03/2008, -205/+33I can has whitespace?
    • Akronos, on 03/03/2008, -9/+114No. I gave you some grayspace instead. Buried.
    • jm4847, on 03/03/2008, -12/+18Buried for lulz
    • daftie, on 03/03/2008, -9/+35I'm feeling the warm welcome... I just wish it weren't from your pee.
      • Zeigy, on 03/03/2008, -3/+13Well, if u going to make the first comment make it something worthwhile 'cuz everybody reads it.
        • daftie, on 03/03/2008, -11/+3Didn't know it was going to be this popular... also didn't know diggers dislike "I can has" (lulz) syndrome so much...

          Just so I know for next time, what other syndromes/meme types should I stay away from?
          • GhostCow, on 03/03/2008, -0/+13Anything more than a week old, or anything from 4chan. Stay away from those.

            This applies to the entire internets, not just digg.
          • jj101, on 03/03/2008, -1/+14Dude on a different day you'd have +50...
          • GreyICE, on 03/03/2008, -1/+6Um, pretty much all of them will earn many buries. Especially used stupidly. If you were actually funny, then you might get some diggs.
          • EtherGnat, on 03/03/2008, -0/+5Better yet stay away from memes entirely and come up with something original and thought provoking to say.
    • brundlefly76, on 03/03/2008, -18/+20Is it really that different to use
      http://search.yahoo.com/
      or http://search.aol.com
      ?
      • Wartz, on 03/03/2008, -1/+36yes, its 6 extra letters to type
        • brundlefly76, on 03/03/2008, -2/+2Wartz - the last remaining person to discover he can bookmark his favorite search engine.

      • batTUrd, on 03/03/2008, -1/+19And the AOL search is "Enhanced by Google" anyway...
      • brundlefly76, on 03/03/2008, -1/+1I use Google as my search engine, but I never use their homepage for search, and I wonder why anyone would.
        Every major browser has a dedicated search box - or you can use google toolbar (which is great), and use that or set the address bar to search google.

        I actually use Yahoo! as my homepage, and have for about 13 years, for just one reason...
        For 13 years, I swear to god that little headlines box is the most reliable and timely breaking news report I know of.

        There have been many times over the years when I have read breaking news in that box and there is nothing on CNN, or CNN just has a breaking news one-liner. This or that news outlet might get x or y story first once in a while, but that damn box seems to be the common denominator overall.

        Not only that, but its always extremely relevant compared to other sites headlines, at least to me.

        Whats funny is that you cannot get that specific set of headlines on My Yahoo!, or anywhere else, just the home page.
        • Solis, on 03/04/2008, -0/+1I hate that damn search box. I only ever use the google.com front page.
    • bbart3d, on 03/03/2008, -9/+4I do not understand all the negativity to daftie.
      • PowerInside, on 03/03/2008, -10/+0lol. caz what he said dint make some sense.
        • Solis, on 03/04/2008, -0/+3No, because he types like a mentally handicapped 5 year old.
    • renagadex2, on 03/03/2008, -1/+10I just kinda hate lolcatz...
    • RoadWarriorX11, on 03/03/2008, -5/+2Why is this being buried, I got a good chuckle from it
    • godofwar3142, on 03/04/2008, -0/+0you're really bad at this
  • ennTOXX, on 03/03/2008, -64/+29There are so many reasons why my homepage is Google.com, being loaded with ***** is not one of them... :||
    • Dested, on 03/03/2008, -14/+314Real men use about:blank
      • danomagnum, on 03/03/2008, -40/+4Real geeks use digg
        • EvilCan, on 03/03/2008, -2/+52There's no way I'd ever put something that loads so slow as my homepage.
        • LordLandon, on 03/03/2008, -7/+2Or, g00g13.com
    • rpgmaker, on 03/03/2008, -30/+4Someone has to tell to the ***** that took those screenshots to take a look at: http://search.yahoo.com/web
      • zzzpoohzzz, on 03/03/2008, -1/+21wonder where they got that idea...
      • EvilCan, on 03/03/2008, -4/+38Why the hell would I want to type search.yahoo.com/web to get to a clean search interface?
      • abandonedhero, on 03/03/2008, -1/+14Because that's Yahoo's homepage, after all.
      • Zeigy, on 03/03/2008, -1/+15Well, sounds to me that some ***** needs to enter
        1) google.com
        2) yahoo.com
        3) aol.com
        And tell me if he sees the poster's point.
        • theHM, on 03/03/2008, -1/+7...or just "google", "yahoo" and "aol", given that most browsers append the ".com"
          • EtherGnat, on 03/03/2008, -1/+6Better yet enter the above and ctrl-enter and it will add www. and .com for you. (shift-enter for .net, ctrl+shift-enter for .org)
    • slippiefist, on 03/03/2008, -4/+54Real men use goatse.cz. What, just me?
      • DixonPro, on 03/03/2008, -2/+23I love you. In a completely inside out ***** kind of way
      • Septimus, on 03/03/2008, -0/+19Your username just got more disturbing.
    • samus1225, on 03/03/2008, -6/+2for shame! how dare you not use digg.com
      • mickstephenson, on 03/03/2008, -2/+6there is more to the internet than digg, which is why i use google.com/ig with the digg plugin. Various news plugins, and an rss feed which monitors an ebay search for a citroen DS
    • R031E5, on 03/03/2008, -1/+2C'mon MSN Live Search above Google? Give me a break!
    • Jahweh, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1costomise your ***** with www.google.com/ig. I guess that is what smart people use for a home page ;p about:blank is so plain
  • Maghook, on 03/03/2008, -83/+13... Uhh, sorry to say, but.
    http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=glo ...
    • davidamerland, on 03/03/2008, -10/+67Actually both this comment and the figures are misleading. Alexa gathers data through th Alexa toolbar which is predominantly used by webmasters as opposed to casual surfers who are the bulk of searchers. All it shows is that webmasters go to Yahoo! more frequently than Google but that does not make Yahoo! more popular than Google when it comes to search as the marketshare figures released by ComCast clearly show. Google accounts for 56.7% of all US searches and 85% of all searches worldwide. That, makes them the best!
      • djepik, on 03/03/2008, -5/+42and lets not forget about google.ca, google.co.uk, google.fr.......
        • cablemodemguy, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4Google appears 24 times on that list by my quick count, taking almost a quarter of the top 100 sites.
      • fkr3, on 03/03/2008, -7/+3Actually Alexa gets traffic data from many sources including purchasing logs from ISPs. They haven't relied exclusively on the toolbar for years. Compete also gets their traffic data from logs they buy.
        • fflis, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3You're a joke of a person. Let me know when you come up with some real data.
      • logandurand, on 03/03/2008, -7/+1That, is not how you use commas!
      • Psych77, on 03/03/2008, -5/+2Most used does not equal best.
    • carterbaldwin, on 03/03/2008, -2/+23lol at #31.
    • kufurex, on 03/03/2008, -1/+17Aside from Alexa's skewed numbers, the rankings are also misleading because a large number of yahoo.com and live.com visitors are the people who have Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. Traffic has nothing to do with relevant search results.
      • Vektuz, on 03/03/2008, -1/+7And they don't record firefox traffic
    • vacax, on 03/03/2008, -2/+26The title says BEST, not "most visited."
    • 80hd, on 03/03/2008, -1/+20Alwxa is obviously slanted.....
      hi5 traffic >wikipedia?
      Yeah ***** right
    • petard, on 03/03/2008, -0/+8#11 RapidShare
      I guess that porn is the 11th most popular website.
    • Malarie, on 03/03/2008, -1/+14Scroll down the list... Google is there 6 or 7 times between 1 and 40.
      • whiteygford, on 03/03/2008, -0/+8exactly, if you took google's hits overall in every country it would be #1 most likely, but what do I know....
    • Gravey9, on 03/03/2008, -0/+10popularity doesn't make it the best.
      • Vektuz, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4This is the point.
        If it were we'd all be eating macdonalds
    • cheseball, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4But in the U.S. and U.K. stats, it shows that google is number 1
    • brad016, on 03/03/2008, -10/+1ya, most people use IE wich has yahoo as a standard homepage
      • IllBeBack, on 03/03/2008, -1/+13Hmm, I'm pretty sure that a standard XP install has MSN as the default homepage.
    • drugged, on 03/03/2008, -0/+7don't forget, at&t is partnered up with yahoo for their dsl service, what percentage of casual internet users installed the crappy at&t browser that came with their router? probably a lot of them. yahoo is the default homepage.
    • BJLStorm, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1Yeah, and I bet you think Internet Explorer is the better web browser because more people use it. More popular does not make something "the best."
  • MarkoBarko, on 03/03/2008, -81/+29okay...and that's precisely the reason i use yahoo. different things work better for different people you know...
    • u8myfoood, on 03/03/2008, -8/+45noob!
    • Chompy, on 03/03/2008, -8/+37Yeah, it was great when yahoo showed me those banner ads for a product I didn't even know I needed. Sure my search results sucked, but now that I've got my new abdominizer, I couldn't care less about search!
      • Psych77, on 03/03/2008, -6/+1Rather than Google, who tried to pretend that the adverts were actually search results...
  • kalleanka, on 03/03/2008, -59/+27Dude, you should compare google.com to ysearch.com or search.live.com.
    It's like me comparing ysearch.com to igoogle.com and laughing how bloated Google is.
    • afidler, on 03/03/2008, -14/+136google.com gets you the basic page, yahoo.com gets you the bloated page...it's comparing the MAIN pages.
      • fkr3, on 03/03/2008, -10/+17It's comparing tthe wrong sites then. Yahoo, AOL, MSN etcetera are "portals". People go there for news and all the other stuff they can do on those sites. The actual search homepages are light and to the point, just like google.
        • Ajajadude, on 03/03/2008, -12/+6If I go to yahoo.com or MSN.com what's in those pictures is what I see: a bunch of crap. If I'm doing a search, I don't want to have to scan through the page to find the search bar.
          • Stroggoth, on 03/03/2008, -3/+9Which is why you compare google.com to live.com, NOT the msn portal. Live.com has about the same amount of stuff as google.com.
          • Trykt, on 03/03/2008, -2/+1I have never heard of Live.com before.
        • sodoh, on 03/03/2008, -3/+2Actually googles portal is a heck of a lot cleaner then the others. http://www.google.com/ig (IIRC).
    • geoken, on 03/03/2008, -12/+31No he shouldn't. I've never heard of ysearch but I do know about google.com and yahoo.com.
      • dvicklund, on 03/03/2008, -2/+1Exactly, if those other sites wanted you to go to those sites, they'd find some way to inform people of their existence. I'd like to see if there are even 10 people who actually knew what ysearch.com was before reading that post.

        (Doubt it, bitch)
    • sliggy, on 03/03/2008, -5/+3Why would you ever compare ysearch to igoogle, they're two completly different things you fail.
      • jbozzy, on 03/03/2008, -1/+8thats what he's ***** saying. yahoo.com is a portal whereas google.com is just a ***** seach engine.
    • RamesySC, on 03/04/2008, -0/+1The point is obviously, and best, illustrated with those pictures.
  • DaLukeMan, on 03/03/2008, -59/+13Whats Google?
  • MonarchWastxD, on 03/03/2008, -17/+208This is why I refuse to use those other websites - there's so much ***** on them half the time I don't know whether I'm searching or I'm watching some video of their latest blog that's advertising how much stocks are up somewhere in China. The other search engine providers should take a hint - if people want to make a homepage; let them make it instead of you sticking crap everywhere. Ref: iGoogle, BBC.co.uk, netvibes.com
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 03/03/2008, -7/+9_(never mind)_
    • ruddy, on 03/03/2008, -8/+40google and yahoo serve a different market. Google is a search engine and yahoo is a portal.
      • thecheatah, on 03/03/2008, -5/+42Google lets you make your own portal! iGoogle!
        • blorguehad, on 03/03/2008, -4/+26Google also lets you maximize your time, look at the content you want (not make u look at content it wants to brainwahs with), and has wicked nice themes like the one i got, some monster whos in water by a city and sometimes a barge is full of ice cream!!!
      • PowerInside, on 03/03/2008, -8/+3Google and Yahoo are both search engines!!!
    • nazsco, on 03/03/2008, -7/+4> there's so much ***** on them

      it's called content.

      yahoo/msn/aol has editors around the world. The localized home page has the latest news of each country you access.

      btw, the image is hosted on a Yahoo server. Flickr's.
      • SLYK, on 03/03/2008, -2/+5flickr has nothing to do with the search pages. stick to the topic.
    • mcmlxxii, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2I like the google page but have to say I'm not keen on the new BBC page. Too slow, not enough content, and I don't want to organise my homepage thanks, worse still reorganise it every time I delete cookies.
    • Razor512, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1google is the best because their website loads almost instantly on both dialup and broadband connections on most websites with ads the ads take up more bandwidth than the site content

      if you go to a torrent site, 95% of the file size of the homepage of a torrent site are ads

      if you go to g4tv forums, over 80% of the content are ads, thank god for adblock http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2241e/tips/id1.html
    • xptoast, on 03/04/2008, -1/+1Ok, who's the wise guy that says this is inaccurate? You can't lie about something this simple. Thats like saying 2+2 isnt 4 just because you lost if the number is 4. Stupid people bug me. Gah!!!
  • deadnoob, on 03/03/2008, -40/+491a correct comparison would be with http://search.yahoo.com/

    yahoo isnt just a search engine like google.com. its more like igoogle
    http://www.google.com/ig

    but the title is right, google's the best.
    • MCCULLAH, on 03/03/2008, -6/+172yea but who says "oh just search it up on search.yahoo.com"
      • viewdrix, on 03/03/2008, -2/+50Or, more importantly, types in "search.yahoo.com"?
        • dindia, on 03/03/2008, -0/+21Some guy mentioned ysearch.com, it redirects to search.yahoo.com.
          So you could be ultra gay, and tell people "just ysearch it"... Me, I'll stick to my Oxford-certified Google
        • HigherLogic, on 03/03/2008, -4/+5Opera: "y <search term>" ...et voila!
      • ccheath, on 03/03/2008, -3/+8deadnoob the point is that google's -homepage- is a clean site (and you can go to /ig if you want lots of stuff on a search page)
        yahoo and others are backwards from that... they try to capitalize on their homepage views by adding stuff to it that can generate revenue and it clutters... on those sites the clean search page is not the homepage, and that's the google difference (at least in this example)
        • funkywood, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2Exactly. When the choice comes down to just a click customer perception matters. A lot! And that comes down to the homepage.

          When you think of Google you think simple starting point for a search. When you think of Yahoo you think of portal with news, stock quotes, email etc.

          I think Google have it the right way round. It's smarter to let the user add stuff than to force them to avoid it.

          So yeah, I don't the picture is inaccurate.
    • Raian, on 03/03/2008, -4/+50There was a time not too long ago when Yahoo.com actually had a clean, simple interface... that was when Yahoo actually mattered.
    • ToadLeg, on 03/03/2008, -2/+55Yahoo clearly did not copy google.com because their logo is to the right of the search box, not above it.
    • Ajajadude, on 03/03/2008, -4/+26As far as simplicity is concerned, typing google.com versus search.yahoo.com, google.com is a hell of a lot quicker.
      • libertao, on 03/03/2008, -2/+6Quicker than both: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keyw ...
        • likwidfuzion, on 03/03/2008, -2/+10Who the hell types in google.com to search anyways? There's a search bar in nearly every browser now.
      • HigherLogic, on 03/03/2008, -4/+4Opera users can create their own searches, so in the address bar you can just type:

        y <search term> (for Yahoo)
        g <search term> (for Google)

        Or whatever keyword shortcut you want to use. Comes in handy for looking up PHP functions (php <function>), Wiki articles (wiki <keywords>), and anything else really.
        • t3soro, on 03/03/2008, -1/+7can do that in firefox too
        • HigherLogic, on 03/03/2008, -7/+1...is that before or after you have to download an extension.
          • kodek, on 03/03/2008, -0/+8No extensions.
            Right click on search field, Add Keyword and you're done.
          • HigherLogic, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1Ah, I was mistaken. Did not know that :) Thanks! Just wasn't as obvious as it is in Opera I guess.
        • DarkDx, on 03/03/2008, -2/+1Opera added it befor too.
      • veri745, on 03/03/2008, -3/+0or just try ysearch.com
    • webs05, on 03/03/2008, -1/+5And you notice how to get the cluttered interface (if that's what you want) you have to go to a different address or set your homepage. By default Google is simple clean and completely unbloated.
    • sik0fewl, on 03/03/2008, -9/+35Yeah, try comparing these:
      http://www.google.com/
      http://search.yahoo.com/
      http://search.aol.com/

      or these:
      http://www.google.com/ig
      http://www.yahoo.com/
      http://www.aol.com/

      I agree there's a reason that Google's the best, but the screenshot does not adequately explain it :)
    • Thinker10, on 03/03/2008, -1/+14Still, there is something to be said for Google to keep its base URL (www.google.com) as simple as it is. Sure, the other companies have similar pages (they'd be stupid not to), but they don't have the cajones to make it their base URL.
    • DonKarnage25, on 03/03/2008, -0/+5When someone thinks "I need to search for something!", unless they're a fanboy of a specific site, they'll usually go to a search engine's 'main' page which are google.com, yahoo.com, etc.

      To say "but look at search.yahoo.com!" in comparison to just "google.com!" is a stupid comparison because the average person looking for a search engine will usually only enter the one name search site.
    • Velirno, on 03/03/2008, -1/+10Oddly enough I still like iGoogle more than the other crap. It still follows the simplistic nature of their flagship site and keeps from looking like a sponsored athelete.
    • MCCULLAH, on 03/03/2008, -10/+2isnt aol and yahoo both search engines powered by google?
    • frank26080115, on 03/03/2008, -3/+13iGoogle has my email and rss on it, stuff I actually want to see.
    • subwayy20, on 03/03/2008, -1/+4Google has a simple interface yet it works, and that's why people use it.
    • PowerInside, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2my yahoo and aol pages are not simmilar to igoogle. igoogle is a lot better, clean and simple and yet really outstanding.
    • svivian, on 03/03/2008, -3/+4The picture also misses out http://www.live.com - though with its bias I guess they'd have used msn.com instead.
      • BrendanSheehan, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2They were late to a party they weren't invited to.
    • Speed, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3But, no ads on the iGoogle portal.
    • Razor512, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1the custom google homepage can be cleared to look like the main page, try that with aol and yahoo
      and there no ads on that page

      also you add what you want yahoo and aol don't give you that option, you can add somethings you want but it will be mixed with other crap that you don't want
  • mrfreeziexp, on 03/03/2008, -16/+259Wow, AOL is a total rip off of Yahoo..
    • fuzzmeister, on 03/03/2008, -10/+5I was just thinking that. It's such an obvious ripoff its almost laughable.
    • SquigglyP, on 03/03/2008, -15/+70except, you know, AOL was around first.
      • SpectreFire, on 03/03/2008, -3/+49And they always send me these sweet ass shiny plastic coasters!
        • SquigglyP, on 03/03/2008, -0/+15even better was the free tin cd cases they sent me!
        • darkNiGHTS, on 03/03/2008, -1/+14Coasters? I thought they were frisbees.
          • SpydeZ, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0I thought they were science experiments for my microwave.
        • bs0l, on 03/03/2008, -0/+10I haven't gotten those in a while, I'm kind of disappointed.
      • MCCULLAH, on 03/03/2008, -2/+3Im sure they adjusted to yahoo, i mean cummon its AOL!
      • Nekiruhs, on 03/03/2008, -3/+2@SpectreFire: What is shiny ass-plastic, and why does it taste good?
      • mrfreeziexp, on 03/03/2008, -1/+34But Yahoo came up with that design first.
      • Zippo, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4Yahoo was the first of the two to have a major search engine... AOL was always focused on providing content to just AOL members. It's like they wanted to make their own, separate web.
      • bejayel, on 03/03/2008, -2/+3Burried for not knowing about the billion digg posts about how aol blatantly ripped off yahoo's interface.
    • michelle70, on 03/03/2008, -7/+3Well you can't improve on 2nd best.
    • str1fe, on 03/03/2008, -5/+2AOL was first, but they still mooch off the originality of those who came after them.
    • darkane, on 03/03/2008, -0/+26To those of you making comments about AOL 'being around first': The point mrfreeziexp was making is that the AOL home page is an (almost) identical rip-off of the Yahoo! home page, because the Yahoo! home page (not the company) used that design first. This is not a hard concept to understand, even for arrogant people.
    • Jforsyth89, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0I remember reading that the concepts and general designs for both sites were developed by the same people. I'll try to search for it.
    • Syphon8, on 03/03/2008, -2/+3The homepages were both designed by the same guy, who is incidentally a very ***** designer.
    • TheWindBlows, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Actually AOL's page was finalized before yahoo whom was in beta at the time.
      Pretty sure it was the same designer or several designers w/e..
    • mille716, on 03/04/2008, -0/+1What is this "AOL" you speak of? I thought it was only a legend that was passed down through generations all the way back from the Ages of Netscape and Geocities. You mean it is real?!
  • eclipse007, on 03/03/2008, -24/+154search.aol.com
    search.live.com
    search.yahoo.com

    AOL. Yahoo and MSN are web PORTALS and all create original content, Google is mostly a search engine.
    My homepage is set to Google and I use it all the time but it has absolutely nothing to do with what submitter tries to imply.
    • InSectWar, on 03/03/2008, -2/+87Ha. The AOL search is "Enhanced by google"
    • davidwasman, on 03/03/2008, -6/+12Yes, but who types 'search.insertnamehere.com' to do a quick search? Simply typing google.com is much faster and the page loads a lot faster versus yahoo.com then clicking search.
      • HigherLogic, on 03/03/2008, -2/+6Depends on what browser you use. Opera users don't have to visit a site to search something if they create custom searches, and Yahoo and Google are there by default.
        • tightscrummy, on 03/03/2008, -3/+7Stop with the opera spam for ***** sake, nobody cares.
        • HigherLogic, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2Must suck having to read comments from someone who likes their browser. Like everytime I see a comment about AdBlock Plus or anything else related to Firefox.
          • tightscrummy, on 03/03/2008, -3/+2You're right, it really does suck. Go hang yourself.
        • paaaaaaaaaa, on 03/03/2008, -1/+3Dude, Firefox and even IE have search boxes.
        • BruceBogtrotter, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1"Dude, Firefox and even IE have search boxes."
          He didn't mean like that. Opera has a feature where you can type "g" in the address bar and then type in your search terms and it will search Google. You can customize these so that you can quickly search specific sites. Example: you can go to Wikipedia and right click on the search box and make a new search(such as "w"). Much better than the separate entity.
      • svivian, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2Well I'm sure a good proportion of people use the quick search bar in Firefox/IE7/Opera etc. and rarely go to the search engine home pages.
    • waspinator, on 03/03/2008, -8/+7Maybe if aol, live, and yahoo made their search sites first and portals second they'd be better. At least they would be more like google.
      • JorgeGonzalez, on 03/03/2008, -2/+6Yea, that's the best way to compete. Do absolutely everything exactly the same.
    • 80hd, on 03/03/2008, -7/+5Dude.
      Portal are content aggregators. AOL, MSN, Yahoo etc. do not write articles, they just browse them for you and highlight the popular ones. They don't create much of anything and it's a lot like finding a paper on the bus that's been opened to the best story by somebody else.
      • studdenfadden, on 03/03/2008, -1/+3Yahoo has a huge news team generating original content, a meteorological department, business analysts, etc. etc. Yes, they buy some content from wire services just like any newspaper or other news outlet, everyone does it. So, your simile is ridiculous.

        • 80hd, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1well, Yahoo does some editing after getting stories from Reuters, the AP etc.

          But I've got to give it to you that they have their own columnists and analysts. I thought they more lacking in content than that. Thanks for the info ;)
    • m0rg0th, on 03/03/2008, -5/+8i think that even though igoogle can be cluttered.. its defined by you, not defined for you
    • air12ick, on 03/03/2008, -1/+5Actually if you go to www.live.com, it is pretty comparable to www.google.com, just live has bigger letters. MSN != Live...that was the whole point of Microsoft launching live...to directly go against Google's simple interface. And if individuals rather have the content on the homepage, they go to MSN.com, which is why it is still alive.

      I personally use the personalized live.com due because it looks much more organized and "pretty" than iGoogle. It needs more gadgets and third party devs to make more content for it though.
    • Bifurcati, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2iff by "create content" you mean writing horoscopes and incorrectly predicting the weather :) Oh, and banner ads!
    • Megakazbek, on 03/03/2008, -1/+1And that's the reason why Google's best - it's a search engine and not a *****' portal.
    • charris1980, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0google is a portal that does that stuff as well. at the top there are 5-6 text links doing what yahoo/aol/msn do. news, mail, blogs, groups, etc., etc.

      google is just better at knowing what people want to see right away and gives the "option" to make a more complex portal, aka iGoogle.

      saying google isn't a portal isn't entirely correct. it is a portal, but it emphasizes on the web search and has a much simpler design.
  • Dumbledorito, on 03/03/2008, -10/+85Google CAN be quite cluttered. It's all user preference. My Google homepage looks just as plain as anything, while my wife has all the gadgets installed for news, weather, etc.

    I do fear for the day when Google passes into the hands of those who didn't found it. Hopefully by then the Google systems will be self-aware and take out anyone who tries to screw things up by transferring them to the tech support phone desk or something.
    • Ribbed4U, on 03/03/2008, -3/+32Dugg for self-aware Google systems.
    • freezerburn819, on 03/03/2008, -1/+20skynet.....
    • lolwutpear, on 03/03/2008, -0/+6I'm waiting for the day when Brin and Page can merge with these self-aware Google systems.
    • thzae, on 03/03/2008, -8/+6Inaccurate

      Digg users don't have girlfriends, nonetheless wives.
  • nsanidy, on 03/03/2008, -14/+2So in short, size DOES matter.
    • bzaks, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2Hahahaha, you're only getting dugg down because of a common physical trait amongst digg users....
      And they don't like hearing the truth!
  • stutimandal, on 03/03/2008, -6/+47Google search box in firefox/opera/safari/IE means you don't even need to go to google.com. Just type the search keywords in browser.
    • dvicklund, on 03/03/2008, -2/+1You don't HAVE to use Google, but who would use anything else anyway?
    • EstT, on 03/04/2008, -0/+0so true, but i couldn't add google to IE search bar though, it gives me an error... why don't they put it by default, god dammit?? damn you MS!!
    • Mutton, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1And using the Google searchbar means the browser your using gets a cut. So support Mozilla/Firefox by Googling a lot! :)
  • wontstoptalking, on 03/03/2008, -9/+18I actually never noticed how much alike AOL and Yahoo are....
    • petard, on 03/03/2008, -1/+51I hadn't noticed because I haven't visited AOL.com in about 8 years.
    • zomfg, on 03/03/2008, -2/+1to wontstoptalking...I dugg your comment simply so that others could see petard's.
      If you were making a comment regarding ownership of either, say so.(.................)
    • TheWindBlows, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1I did...
      Didn't think much of it because stuff like that happens all the time...
  • drinkdrankdrunk, on 03/03/2008, -11/+194K.I.S.S.
    • AZTriGuy, on 03/03/2008, -3/+45What does Gene Simmons have to do with any of this?
    • tuh2, on 03/03/2008, -4/+93Why are you people digging him down?

      Keep It Simple Stupid
      • Dylson, on 03/03/2008, -2/+3I dugg him up actually.
      • thailand1972, on 03/03/2008, -0/+11I think stupid people got offended
      • KingGorilla, on 03/03/2008, -5/+1ohhhh. I thought it was the song. First comes AOL then comes Yahoo then comes Google in a baby carriage. I'm such an idiot for complicating the matter
    • cankillar, on 03/03/2008, -7/+7Google has simple webpage because their page is loaded, what, several billion times a month? It saves a lot of bandwidth.
      • jololli, on 03/03/2008, -2/+10mmmm no that is not the reason at all my friend.
        • specialK16, on 03/03/2008, -8/+2Come to think about it....... I think it is.
          • sexybobo, on 03/03/2008, -1/+4http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.s ...
            Google has been clean since the being. One of the thing i like about google is how little bandwidth it uses (great for making sure some one with a crap connection can connect to the web take 1/10th the time to load that msn does) But google's clean design is not about saving bandwidth.
        • blorguehad, on 03/03/2008, -4/+1really, now that i think of that... its a pretty good explanation way beter than indian shamans said so...
      • SuperCow1127, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2... because we all know Yahoo has no bandwidth concerns whatsoever...
    • adrames, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1Great advice, hurts my feelings every time.
  • minnymoo, on 03/03/2008, -10/+14it's the reason why Google is my homepage.
    • iofthestorm, on 03/03/2008, -1/+3Hmm, the reason why Google is my homepage is that Firefox has it set to be the default, and I never bothered to change it because it was so useful. But now that I think of it, using iGoogle as my homepage would be much more useful.
      • sexybobo, on 03/03/2008, -3/+1using the google.com/firefox homepage gives money to the makers of firefox though. As does the search box in firefox.
    • nazsco, on 03/03/2008, -3/+2homepage is for loosers. period.
    • fr34k5h0w, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4My homepage is set to about:blank. No advertisements and it loads fast.
  • Colesif, on 03/03/2008, -8/+87It's because they know, and are sure to let us know, what their main focus is. Google is a search engine, Yahoo and AOL are cluster *****.
  • bxbomber, on 03/03/2008, -2/+8Whats wrong with the Anderson Silva vs Dan Henderson stare down on yahoo?
    • Vindicoth, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1Anderson Silva doesnt have his arm around Dan Hendersons throat yet?
  • lead2thehead, on 03/03/2008, -8/+2They're best because their page doesn't have ads plastered all over it.
  • exeterhomie, on 03/03/2008, -5/+2less clutter the better
  • nubnub, on 03/03/2008, -4/+12So who stole the layout yahoo or AOL?
    • dereo, on 03/03/2008, -1/+16AOL. They thought "Hey, it's clearly not working for Yahoo, so maybe it will not work for us too!"
      Sadly, even their rip-off new website is far better than their dial-up and obese desktop software ever was.
    • Cryoniq, on 03/03/2008, -3/+1Which came first.. the chicken or the egg.. hmmm hmm..
    • TheWindBlows, on 03/03/2008, -1/+1AOL was finalized before Yahoo.
      Though who started the design who knows..
      So I'd have to say they are pretty even...
  • levelwave, on 03/03/2008, -9/+1I'll have to abandon my long time Google loyalship to side with Yahoo on this just for the very fact that they're sporting Dan Henderson vs Anderson Silva for the UFC title on the homepage...
  • raggedtoad, on 03/03/2008, -18/+10That's funny, except for the fact that Yahoo's search page looks like this: http://search.yahoo.com/, and AOL's search page looks like this: http://search.aol.com/aol/webhome

    So, you're retarded. Oh, and Google's homepage looks like this: http://www.google.com/ig
    • sourc3, on 03/03/2008, -3/+15Actually.... it looks like this: http://www.google.com
    • vibrokatana, on 03/03/2008, -2/+8Both yahoo and aol are still more cluttered then google.
    • strikertp, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1Boy do I love ad hominems. A homepage is defined by the raw url so no... google.com's home page is google.com not google.com/ig. Which by the way you can unclutter unlike the abominations which are yahoo and AOL
      • theHM, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1Well, there are website homepages, and personal homepages. A site's homepage is, as you described, the root default page of the domain. Each person's personal homepage can be whatever they want it to be.

        Raggedtoad seems to be using "homepage" to refer to pages designed to be potential personal homepages. You could only refer to google.com/ig as "Google's homepage" if it was the one and only page designed to be a personal homepage, which it is not.
    • raggedtoad, on 03/03/2008, -2/+0yes, because google only starts you out with a few widgets. Both AOL and Yahoo are fully customizable as well if you have an account. So they are still exactly the same. The ONLY difference is that google's default page is a search form, and yahoo and AOL, both being web portal companies originally, default to their portal pages instead of their auxiliary search service.
    • austinnowlin, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2no raggedtoad.
      you're the retarded one
    • erzy, on 03/03/2008, -1/+6Notice how the AOL search is "enhanced by Google"?
  • thatsmyaibo, on 03/03/2008, -2/+53Actually this is exactly the reason Google's search engine took off. This isn't new news. People wanted simplicity while doing an online search.
  • Chris71990, on 03/03/2008, -10/+51If Google is best why is this picture on a Yahoo site?
  • Gaulven, on 03/03/2008, -8/+6This was true a long time ago, but isn't really relevant now. Even if Google is the best.
  • Steyr47, on 03/03/2008, -17/+4Stop burying everybody. This isn't a comment graveyard.
  • aaronshaf, on 03/03/2008, -12/+9Why not compare google.com with search.yahoo.com instead of yahoo.com? That'd be more fair, perhaps?
    • d03boy, on 03/03/2008, -2/+5why would that be more fair?
    • adrenaline33, on 03/03/2008, -2/+12No, because nobody wants to type in search.yahoo.com
      • Hutson, on 03/03/2008, -2/+0why types into the url bar?
      • HigherLogic, on 03/03/2008, -5/+1Again, depends on what browser you use. Opera users have custom searches, we can just type "y <search term>" to search Yahoo.
    • BodomX, on 03/03/2008, -0/+11Because when your telling some one to "Google that *****" its much easier than saying "Search.yahoo that *****".
  • mattbrown1234, on 03/03/2008, -8/+0thanks why I like goggle no ads, Loads fast, and easy to use.
  • sourc3, on 03/03/2008, -2/+6I could not agree with this more.

    For the average, non popup blocking/adblocking/geeky poweruser, google is by far the best. And even to those of us that are... I prefer it's speed and simplicity.
  • washwords, on 03/03/2008, -9/+1ha ha ha. that's great. classic.
  • Jenadae, on 03/03/2008, -14/+6Google is a search engine MSN, AOL and Yahoo are a portal. If you want to compare www.google.com to something try :

    http://search.yahoo.com/ &
    http://www.live.com/
    http://search.aol.com/aol/webhome
    • Stroggoth, on 03/03/2008, -3/+1Digg comment above up. That is precisely the right comparison.
  • kcapxis, on 03/03/2008, -9/+2Yeah, but if they don't stop with the whole CAPTCHA thing every time I try to do a search I'm going to have to switch to Ask.com. Even Google will lose customers if they continue pissing us off.
    • sleeknerve, on 03/03/2008, -0/+9when the hell do they ever use CAPTCHA, i have never seen any CAPTCHA related to google in my life
    • soupr, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Google only use CAPTCHA if you're surfing through certain known proxies (http://www.showlist.info/index.php). Use a legit connection and you wont be bothered.
  • daliminator, on 03/03/2008, -12/+6Live Search ftw?
  • kronso23, on 03/03/2008, -9/+5You forgot MSN.
  • MattNF, on 03/03/2008, -8/+2What about ask.com?
  • SingleMeOut, on 03/03/2008, -9/+3google pwns.
  • link5280, on 03/03/2008, -7/+14www.live.com

    Anyway, browsers allow searching directly from a search bar now. Why go to the homepage?
  • danubecities, on 03/03/2008, -11/+6That's not the reason. Their spartan homepage is worthless, but their search results are excellent. If you're using the Google home page there's something wrong with you. There's a search box built into every modern web browser that goes right to the search results.
  • TheWorm, on 03/03/2008, -7/+15Buried because everyone knows this.
    I would read an article on why simple and clean is good and appealing to users, but its hardly news that google is designed simplistically, and Yahoo has a bunch of other stuff that no one uses.
    And in all fairness, the part of yahoo that would be comparable to google is search.yahoo.com not Yahoo's homepage which functions for a lot of things including news.
  • broodking, on 03/03/2008, -8/+5google search engine, plan and simple
  • Awspire, on 03/03/2008, -5/+6I guess the point of those screen captures is to show less is more? Though that makes no sense since most want an active content home page. Anyone who sets Google.com as a home page is a moron, your better off just setting it to about:blank.
    • nullr3, on 03/03/2008, -1/+1yeah that has no search function rendering it useless
      • Awspire, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1I search via my toolbar, not some web page.
  • jaymulder, on 03/03/2008, -10/+1Google owns for many reasons. But real men use Opera. g this and y that
  • segiterrus, on 03/03/2008, -5/+2size matters...
  • mystdragon333, on 03/03/2008, -8/+29Yeah, this is why I'm voting for Ron Paul.
    • BrendanSheehan, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2Because he's simple? Sorry, you were asking for it.
  • dustout, on 03/03/2008, -6/+6ask.com looks better than google IMO
  • austinnowlin, on 03/03/2008, -12/+2A-*****-MEN!!!!
    This is why I chose Google over Yahoo when I first started using search at age 11 or 12.
    I'm 20 now, and its a big reason why I still do.
    • Hutson, on 03/03/2008, -5/+0Who cares what you were doing at age 11 or 12?! Uless you were blowing other guys, that would be interesting...
    • prgmctan, on 03/03/2008, -0/+6you're ***** men?
    • austinnowlin, on 03/03/2008, -1/+1hahahahah i liked that prgmctan
  • Syric, on 03/03/2008, -5/+10B-b-but Lycos!
    • skinrock, on 03/03/2008, -1/+5T-t-t-today junior!
      wow, I never thought I'd use that on Digg.
  • Famicom, on 03/03/2008, -8/+5Simplicity sometimes is the best.
  • retzed, on 03/03/2008, -2/+14People hate words?
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