According to Search Engine Land, AOL and Lycos are two examples of portals that gave up their own search technologies and watched their traffic drop. Perhaps Yahoo will be the exception because Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has made plenty of noise about how Yahoo isn’t just a search engine.
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