The MyWeb integration convinced me to switch my homepage to Yahoo! Search but my Firefox toolbar still defaults to Google, and I have to admit, I usually like the results for the latter better still. So, I thought it’d be worth noting that here’s a search where Yahoo! definitively did better:
What’s interesting to note, like my MyWeb experience, it wasn’t the pure algorithmic results that provided a better results, but the Yahoo! Shortcut that answered my question. I love these sort of things (both on Google, which started pioneering the search as cmdline, and still has better parsing on some things), but I think the YubNub-like Shortcuts are just getting started in terms of fullfilling their potential. My idea of the new hotness: linking your shortcuts into your MyWeb community and then auto-promoting useful shortcuts based on a simple Ajax ‘was this helpful’ feedback mechanism.