I'm not arguing that the results are worse. Google is obviously more accurate with a larger index etc. But...
Ads. Google's SERPs are about 75% ads above the fold on a laptop. They're horrible.
Privacy. Everything you do on Google is tracked up the wazoo. It's pretty much impossible to stop too.
Share-ability. You can't share a Google search because personalization means everyone gets different results.
API access. Yahoo in particular had a really good Search API. You could search via the API and do things with the results. Google only allows you to embed an iframe to their site to display the results their way, with their ads. You can't search programmatically any more unless you pay a lot of money.
Ads. Google's SERPs are about 75% ads above the fold on a laptop. They're horrible.
Privacy. Everything you do on Google is tracked up the wazoo. It's pretty much impossible to stop too.
Share-ability. You can't share a Google search because personalization means everyone gets different results.
API access. Yahoo in particular had a really good Search API. You could search via the API and do things with the results. Google only allows you to embed an iframe to their site to display the results their way, with their ads. You can't search programmatically any more unless you pay a lot of money.