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Yahoo Slow

Yahoo searches take...well, forever!

         

Sebastian

12:44 pm on Oct 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Whenever I perform a search on Yahoo, 9 times out of 10, the search results don't come back for minutes, or even at all.

What do I mean? Well, I often get a "TCP/IP web server too busy" type message. Alternatively, the seach could take a minute to return anything (that's 60 long seconds).

On occasions, search results are returned instantly.

So what's going on? Could it be my end? Well, no. I surf with a cable modem, and have absolutely no delays when using Google, or any other search engines - just Yahoo (which doesn't deserve its exclamation mark as far as I'm concerned).

Now, I'm presuming if everyone's experience with Yahoo was as bad as mine, there would be mutiny in the streets. So I'm assuming this is an issue with how Yahoo treats my ISP/octet address etc...but I can't be certain.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Mohamed_E

1:21 pm on Oct 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Just did a few searches on Yahoo! and time seemed normal, less than 5 seconds on a dialup line.