# Yahoo Search

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Yahoo Search and 11 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Some people find Yahoo Search's interface improved and still use it, though critics call it clearly worse than Google.

## What people warn about

- Worse results than Google (5 comments): "Google was immediately better than Yahoo, that's why people switched en masse." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131356)) "Google search was way better than yahoo or altavista" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460047)) "Bing, Yahoo, Yandex are way worse than Google" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443667))
- Quality fell after crawler shutdown (2 comments): "performance in terms of latency, quality, and $/search was worse than when Yahoo was doing it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652083)) "The problem was that yahoo killed it. They shut down its crawler and it started going stale." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608626))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-search.md): 315 recommend
- [Yandex Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yandex.md): 79 recommend
- [Marginalia Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/marginalia-search.md): 50 recommend
- [Bing](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bing.md): 33 recommend
- [Ecosia](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ecosia.md): 24 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Yahoo Search", https://hackerapproved.com/p/yahoo-search/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).