Howard Stern Prefers Yahoo Over Google
On the day when Howard Stern was dumped by four of Citadel Broadcasting’s radio stations due to plugging Sirius Satellite Radio, he also made a nice little plug for Yahoo after commenting on Sunday’s 60 Minutes Google “Infomercial.” Gary Price picked up the conversation on Howard and his love for Yahoo search and also found a rough transcript from MarksFriggin.com.
“Howard talked about this report he saw about Google and how great it is to work there. There are people who work there who are worth millions or more. He said the funny thing is that they pretend to be poor for some reason.
The guys who started the web site still drive around in ratty cars and pretend that they don’t have billions. He said it’s like the more you can act like you haven’t made it, the better you are. Howard said there’s not point to that then because they can’t use their money.
Howard said that he doesn’t use Google, he always uses Yahoo. Artie said someone punched his name into a search engine and it was the most depressing thing he’s ever seen. Howard uses Yahoo as the default search engine on his computer and he’s been using it for years.”
Stern was sent a $200,000 advertising bill from Citadel for all the plugs he’s been giving Sirius Satellite Radio on the air. There is no word of any bills being issued by Viacom (Stern’s current employer) over plugs of Yahoo. “Keep sending me bills. Like I’m going to pay ‘em,” Stern said on his show.
Stern pulled off a major holiday promotion for Sirius Satellite Radio, giving away an estimated $2 million worth of gifts. He’ll be moving away from Clear Channel and on to Sirius Satellite Radio in a multimillion dollar deal.
Mr. Stern does not work for Clear Channel, he is employed by Viacom.
Wow, what a freakin’ load that was. I believe that Google is so successful (and such a cool company) because the people who work there are geeks. Maybe Stern’s not too fond of the geek subculture, or just doesn’t know too much about it, but Google == Geek, Fashion=/= Geek. I bet they all have nitro-cooled 5GHz home-brewed linux clusters. Come on.
howard you got to start having those examane the girls bobs again.
Google is much better than Yahoo. To say anything different is just ignoring the facts. Stern must have Yahoo stock. Just do a search for anything as a test and compare the two. Yahoo was even ‘powered’ by google for a short time less than 2 years ago. Yahoo had the lead and lost it to a better product. Read any computer magazine and they will 99% recommend Google over Yahoo. Yahoo should win on just the fact that its also a portal and not just a search engine, but even so, it still loses.
Google used to be much better than Yahoo! latley for certain terms at least Google’s results ahve been very very poor compared to yahoo! Try “NFL Giants” and see if you disagree…