Class Blogs in Google Search Results

After reading Justin's post on Google, I started wondering what their competitive advantage really is. Up until coming to college, I always used Yahoo as my primary search engine. I always seemed to find things quicker than I could on any other search engine site. However, when I came to U of M freshmen year, I remember a librarian telling me that Google was the "smart" search engine. But, what does this mean? What is the real underlying difference betwen these two competitors? In trying to find out, I ran across a website that allows you to type in a word and then run the search simultaneously in both Google and Yahoo so that you can compare the results. After running random searches to see how the results differ, I decided to type in my name. To my surprise, I discovered that Google is now recognizing our class blogs where as Yahoo is not. It is definitely interesting to see the differing results.