Google and Yahoo are the world's two largest and most popular search engines. Yahoo was very big search company a couple of years back, but Google since has over taken them in every aspect of search and search engine popularity. With Google's innovative approach for many business and consumer web based applications like Gmail and lots of other innovative products from Google, it is no wonder they have won numerous search accolades and awards.

According to report from Nielson Netratings in July 2006, Google still owns close 50% of the world's share of search engine searches. Yahoo is around 24% followed by the other search engines.

In other words, Google has beaten Yahoo hands down in being the worlds most popularly used search engine.

Recently however, Yahoo got back some pride by beating Google not in Search engine popularity, but on the tennis court to decide which of the two search organizations were better organization in the game of tennis. Apparently Yahoo turned out to have the better tennis team by beating the Google team by a short margin of 163 to 157 in a contest named "Battle over the Net".

The two search organizations fielded an impressive line up of 20 to 30 tennis players and played double matches at the Stanford Stadium. Cedric Beust a Google software engineer documented the entire friendly tennis match on his blog. Click here to view more Photos of the "Battle over the Net" tennis challenge between Yahoo and Google.