Yahoo! is different in Netscape and IE

[NoCarrier]

I noticed that things are different with Netscape and Internet Explorer in Yahoo! For the past couple of days, it takes 2-3 secs to get the results when using Netscape (it wasn't like that before). First I thought it was the DNS server of my ISP but then I tried it with Internet Explorer and the results where faster (well, normal like before)

I searched "currency" using Netscape 7.1 and IE 6.0

Differences with Netscape :

- Showing the sponsored links (top right like google)
- Yahoo Categories are at the bottom of the page
- Only 15 results per page
- Takes a little longer to get the results with the (drs.yahoo.com)

If you want to see the screenshots :

[pages.infinit.net...]

[pages.infinit.net...]

I think they are testing their results with Netscape because only 4 to 5% of surfers are using it.

[NoCarrier]

What? This is not important enough?! lol

If I search "currency" with Internet Explorer, I get the following URL

[search.yahoo.com...]

If I search "currency" with Netscape, I get the following URL

[search.yahoo.com...]

Anyone here have an explanation about this?!

[mcavic]

I just tried with IE6 and Mozilla 1.3, and got the exact same results on both.

[Serio]

Did it on a Mac - same results.

[NoCarrier]

Did you get the sponsored links or not?

Did you even look at my screenshots?

[mcavic]

Yes, I looked at the screenshots and saw that they were different. Yes, I get the sponsored links on both. It does seem slower on Mozilla, but then, I've always thought IE was faster. I get 20 results on both.

Nope, I don't have an explanation. I don't know why they would deliver different content to Netscape users, but fiddling with Inktomi results might have something to do with it.

[Tim]

Based on the URL I would say it has something to do with Netscape's lack of (or poor) support for UTF8 encoding.