Is it just me or is Google search utterly worthless? [View All]

[Speck Tater]

I have always used the Yahoo search engine out of habit and I kept hearing that Google was so much better. HA! I put in a couple of relevant search terms and Yahoo finds EXACTLY the pages I'm looking for while Google brings up 54 million pages that have NOTHING to do with my search terms.

Yesterday I was looking for the website of a company in town that has been in business for years and years. I typed in the company name in Google and it found exactly nothing. No results. Zip. Nada. I typed the same company name into Yahoo and it found the company's website as the first listing followed by two dozen sites that mentioned the company by name.

Another example: I was curious to see if the script for a particular episode of the TV series Roswell was available online so I typed "Roswell script" into both search engines. The Google results had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with scripts for Roswell, (but did mention half a dozen other, unrelated TV shows like a Smallville site, a Wonderfalls site, a Back To The Future site, etc. etc.) The Yahoo search results were exactly and specifically about Roswell scripts, and smack on target.

My short two-week research project into Google vs Yahoo has resulted in Yahoo finding every site I looked for and Google finding not one single site I was looking for. Not one!

So all the hype about Google is just plain B.S. as far as I'm concerned. Yahoo search blows it clear out of the water when it comes to actually finding relevant sites. Anybody else discover that? Or am I just nuts?