Yahoo search slow for anyone else?

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augiem

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I'm getting SERIOUSLY frustrated with Yahoo lately. Seems like starting 3-4 weeks ago it takes 15-20 seconds to do your first search of the browser window on Yahoo.com! Is anyone else experiencing this? Try opening a fresh IE, then go to yahoo.com. Type something into the search bar and hit search. Does it stall for you on the 1st search?

I've tried it on several computers all with the same result.

I don't like Google, but this is seriously making a lifetime Yahoo user consider switching permanently!
 
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augiem

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Hi guys,

I'm resurrecting this thread because I STILL have not found a solution to this problem.
It ONLY stalls in IE, not firefox. And it's not just Yahoo. I also get the stall on the main page of Pricegrabber.com and a few others I don't remember.

If I open a new IE window and go directly to search.yahoo.com it will do the stall. It lasts from 10-20 seconds. I can see IE is somehow stalled because the little spinning ring that shows up on the page tab is completely stopped. No menus or buttons or even closing the window will work during this stall.

Is there any way I can monitor what is going on at this point? I'm suspecting it's stalling on something specific in the page code, but I can't tell what.

Augie
 
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secretanchitman

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why do you use IE? use firefox/opera.....imo, they are much better and more customizable browsers.

and yes...i agree with meltdown75.
 
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effowe

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As everyone is saying, use FF and Google. I don't know why people still use IE these days, except for visiting proprietary websites that refuse all other browsers. It's 2008 man, popups and flash ads are a thing of the past with FF + adblock plus.
 
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wyvrn

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Yahoo in the last few months has been slow all around. Emails, maps, search, weather, you name it. I wonder if they lack the money to keep their site upgraded. Google has been killing them with their site updates, so that it now looks like yahoo. Sucks because I have been using yahoo since it first came out (replacing alta vista). But it may be on its way out.
 
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augiem

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Oh my. I don't really need everyone telling me to switch to google and firefox. That's nice and all, but I really just want help with this issue.

I prefer Yahoo's search results to Google's. I also prefer IE to Firefox. I have all the browsers installed, but I use IE mainly.

I don't have any problem at all with Yahoo's speed once the initial stall is done. That and the fact it doesn't happen on any other machine tells me something's wrong with my configuration. I've tried removing all the installed components like Flash and reinstalling them, but it doesn't help.

In fact, I did a little test. It does the exact same stall when I just type a word into the URL bar and hit enter. (It does an auto search on the word, but only after stalling about 10-15 seconds trying to look what it thinks is a URL.) So I wonder if it's trying to connect to a bad IP address for yahoo on the 1st shot, but then corrects its record for the session and looks up the right IP on subsequent searches... Maybe my hosts file?

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FoBoT

FoBoT

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this is due to them laying off those 500 people
they don't have as many people to type in the responses now
 
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TreyRandom

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Originally posted by: augiem
Oh my. I don't really need everyone telling me to switch to google and firefox. That's nice and all, but I really just want help with this issue.
Click to expand...

I'm certainly not going to tell you to switch to Google and Firefox.

However, I will tell you that you are the last remaining person on Earth who uses Yahoo for search. In fact, Yahoo is slowing down your searches on purpose so you'll stop using it. They're doing it because they *really* need to use that last search server for other purposes... such as their revolutionary new Yahoo!-e-mail service. Works great with Netscape, I hear.

 
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