I normally use Google for the majority of my web searching. Just over a week ago Lifehacker pointed to YaGoohoo!gle, which is a site that allows you to submit one search query to Google and Yahoo! at the same time. So, of course, I searched for my name. Interestingly, my blog’s homepage doesn’t show up in the first 1000 hits on Google (I’ve used a different tool to verify that), but show up #1 on Yahoo. (I can’t bring myself to put Yahoo’s exclamation point after their name every time…) Certain posts from this blog show up in the top 100 results on Google, but not my homepage. I think I like Yahoo just a little bit more now. ;-)

Yay for egosurfing.

Oh, and I’ve gone back to using Yahoo’s (well, really X1’s) desktop search utility. Copernic has a great offering, but X1 / Yahoo Desktop Search (same-same) have a user interface that works a little better for me. Plus, for me being able to see a progress bar during indexing is huge (yes, I have control issues). Copernic still doesn’t have that for some reason. Yahoo still blows chunks when it comes to releasing information about what they’re doing with YDS, and making it easy to find out if there’s a new version available. And they should be downright embarrassed about their ’support forum’. But the new version (which I found out about from a blog rather than from Yahoo) seems to have fixed my biggest issues, so I’m happily using it again.