Whats the difference between Google and Yahoo!

I get asked this question so often by people. Both of them are search engine yet the 2 engines are so different from each other! Why? The human element!

Google is what's called a meta crawler search engine where a 'spider' or a 'bot' would visit your website and collect the information from it, the 'spider' is a machine of course.

On the other hand, Yahoo! is a directory where websites are classified under specific category and placed in a manner of category. This is not the only difference, yahoo! is also a man powered verification directory.

E-mail me on adrian@ebnsoftware.com if you would like to know more about the different types of search engines.