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by greglindahl 2902 days ago
The sequence was: Yahoo Directory -> Yahoo showing Google results -> Yahoo builds their own search engine -> Yahoo uses bing
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Yahoo search was provided by Altavista for some time as well.
Yes, before they used google. It's a pretty interesting story, actually, how Yahoo felt that they should use the best underlying search engine with a "white label" approach, and how Google succeeded in eventually building a very strong brand despite being invisible.
Didn’t they use inktomi for a while?
Yes, and then they bought inktomi.