# Failed Yahoo searches

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-yahoo-searches/761929>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-yahoo-searches/761929 "2016-08-06T11:17:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-yahoo-searches/761929/1 "2016-08-06T11:17:53Z")

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Yahoo is my home page and when I go there to conduct a search, it does what it’s supposed to do. But when I’m on a different site and want to do a quick search from the little toolbar line top right of my browser, it almost always says “We did not find results for\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” It will offer me some alternate search terms, but will give the same “We did not find results for” result for them. (I can do a Google search from there as well, but Yahoo has been my default for almost 20 years and I resist change.)

Is something going on with Yahoo? I’m using a 2-year-old MacBook and the latest iteration of Firefox. It’s been doing this for about a week now.

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**Author:** ![albino\_manatee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/albino_manatee/32/2_2.png) [@albino\_manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/albino_manatee)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-yahoo-searches/761929/2 "2016-08-07T20:13:09Z")

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back in the 90’s i used alta-vista … since that time, google has remained my portal of choice. ffx replaced my mie at around the same time. currently running win-10 and firefox-48 … the browser seems bit sluggish from their previous iteration … also mouse-cursor has started acting erratic with my laptop. yes, i digressed.

it may be the latest iteration of your firefox … [ul]  
[li]have you tried safari or chrome?[/li][li]have you tried clearing cache or all of yahoo’s cookies?[/li][li]have you tried ‘defaulting’ to another search-engine for a week … and then going back to yahoo?[/li][/ul]  
you may get more pertinent results/discussions from mozilla’s forums at [Firefox Support • mozillaZine Forums](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38)

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-yahoo-searches/761929/3 "2016-08-08T07:59:36Z")

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It can’t possibly be anything wrong with your system, **Horatio Hellpop** ; it has to be a limitation of whatever databases the Yahoo search engines pull from.

Why Yahoo would be having those problems now, I don’t know. The point is, it isn’t anything you or anyone here could fix.