So no one appeared to care when I brought it up before, but am I the only one who has problems with the fact that the mumsnet search is sponsored by yahoo?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Shitty shitty yahoo

Plus it's laughable that freecycle is run via it.

Surely you could find an open source thang?

Whats the probelm with yahoo then?

oh streuth

what you being all militant about yahoo for?

do they strap babies to rockets or something?

yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

pretty much, yes

It's mainly their dealings with the chinese government, though google are almost as bad.

surely we cannot boycott everything

sadly we can't flame

I don't understand - my search function isn't sponsored by anyone. What do you mean, TDWP?

It is on the home page, not sponsored, but 'powered by' , presumably the other search functions are too?

[waits for a tech to come and tell her shes got it all wrong]

what is wrong with yahoo anyway??

Ah, right -- Mumsnet search, not search messages. I've never even noticed Mumsnet search was there before, TBH.

I haven't got a search function on my home page!

The site search is "powered by" Yahoo, rather than sponsored, as you noted. MN doesn't get (or give) any money for it.

Not sure what you mean by "presumably the other search functions are too"?

So, its bad because????

Yaarrrhooooo, VVVQQQQQQQQOOOOOOO!!!!!

and it even rhymes!!

Not sure yet. Changing to Yahoo was a quick-fix solution to something.

never noticed mn search before. in fact, i still havent

yahoo shared info about chinese users to chinese govn leading to arrests.

google censored their search facility for chinese govn.

It is all very wanky.

but I am not a boycotter.

Oh no.
Not cheap quick fixes.
They are never worth it.

Hello Pan

Arrests for what?

can somebody explain the problem in laymens terms please?