June 17, 2008 58 Comments

YahooGroups vs Google Groups

I used to be a big fan of Yahoo Groups because of the quality of groups they’d grown, but here’s why I’m starting to look at Google Groups, and this should make sense quickly: search.

Try going to Yahoo Groups and putting in any search term. See what you get back for results. Do the same search in Google Groups. See how you can pare down the findings? Look how methodical it is. Want groups of only a certain size? Easy. Want groups from a certain language or geography? Let’s do that, too.

Super simple, yet powerful.

Communities might be flourishing on Yahoo, but I can FIND them on Google.

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  • pc77

    In google groups you can send files attached in mails, something you can´t do with yahoo groups.

  • pc77

    In google groups you can send files attached in mails, something you can´t do with yahoo groups.

  • xoxo

    spammers are more active on yahoo than in google

  • xoxo

    spammers are more active on yahoo than in google

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  • Jsensor

    I think many yahoo groups are somehow relics of old usenet groups… and there are a large number dead groups with massive numbers of members. Some I belong to have thousands of members and virtually no traffic, I think many are attached to dead email addresses or people got sick of the spam/ traffic and turned off their email receive option and went web-only. Digest is a good option for more active groups. I am very curious to try google groups out after being a yahoo groups user for about 7-8 years. IMHO everything google does seems to be just a tad smarter and better than the alternative, and if it isn't they will tweak it to be better.

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    Try going to Yahoo Groups and putting in any search term. See what you get back for results. Do the same search in Google Groups. See how you can pare down the findings? Look how methodical it is.

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