Random Facts #52 + 53 · 12:14pm Mar 31st, 2017
Idaho is not, in fact, made of potatoes. Even though I DID eat freshly-made chips for dinner at a restaurant yesterday.
Verizon owns Yahoo.
Yahoo uses Bing as its search engine.
I'm really tired right now, so that's all.
Can you explain the point about Yahoo using Bing? I've used both, and I can tell you I very much prefer Bing. The engine, to me, is a bit smarter and the pages load faster.
4478288 A while back, Yahoo signed an agreent with Microsoft to use Bing's search engine tech as a replacement for their own. They've made minor modifications to it since
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Interesting. You can be paid to use both, coincidentally.
4478476 Because they both use the Bing engine, which is tied to Microsoft Rewards.
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As far as Yahoo's search engine is concerned, I was thinking more about Swagbucks, which is not as closely affiliated with Microsoft Rewards.
What else does Verizon own?
4481448 They also own AOL, which if I remember correctly, owns the tech site Engadget.
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Wow.