text: please: yahoo vs google?!? i was just wondering, some say that google is a partner or an annex of yahoo..who owns yahoo? what's the difference between them? if i use the search box,some or almost all of the results of the yahoo compared to google are the same..can anyone clarify this??thanks!!! hello> see both are different companies. yahoo inc. and google inc.  their owners are stanford grads. intially lerry and sergy (owner of google) want to sell their technology to the yahoo. but yahoo did't took it. and both opened a brand new company google inc.  now google mareket value is 3fold that of yahoo.  as you are saying result are same.  yahoo is using google's services for searching resurlt and yahooo is paying google for that