Tag: yahoo

Google Environment

To paraphrase an old comment about IBM, made during its 30 year dominance of the enterprise mainframe market, Google is not your competition, Google is the environment. Online businesses which struggle against this new reality will pay opportunity costs both in online advertising revenue as well as product success. Yahoo could add an extra $1.5b to their revenue overnight by conceding monetization to Google and becoming a distribution partner for Adwords, as Ask Jeeves did.

Google share 70%?

Yahoo’s own flickr service gets 2.4x as much traffic from Google as it does from Yahoo.

Dweebs

Google users are dweebs. Yahoo users are horndogs. And AOL users are geezers.

Everyone copies

lol. nice riposte on the yahoo copy allegations

Yup, getting copied without credit can suck. I’m glad that Jeremy was so observant and pointed this out immediately. Google has already changed the page, but I trust Yahoo will be on the lookout for copying in the future.

Google Copies Yahoo

Seriously, click those images and look at the full-sized versions. They’re remarkably similar. And I’ve checked with our PR group to make sure that this wasn’t just a template that Microsoft gave to all partners. It’s not.

Got Answers and Nowhere to Share Them?

Today we learned that Google Answers is closing. That’s a shame because some great knowledge was created on that service by the Google Answers Researchers.

The Yahoo! Answers community continues to thrive and grow. We believe in the power of community; in people helping people get answers to their questions.So, this is an open invitation for those researchers to join us.

heh. snarky

Google passing Yahoo

By then Google, in #4 position with 110m monthly uniques across all properties, will have passed the slow-growing Yahoo, the current leader with 130m monthly uniques.

2006-12-23:

It was the first time that Google attracted more visitors than Yahoo, reflecting Google’s growing popularity outside the United States.

sitemaps.org

about time that the engines agree on a common sitemap format. now to take this forward with more TTL and other information, while making it hard to game.

Flickr Attempt to Patent Interestingness

“I don’t think Flickr should be able to get a broad patent on “interestingness”. There’s a very large number of papers in the image processing and collaborative filtering areas that all define various notions of relevance, interestingness, salience, or novelty. A specific innovative technique might be patentable, but not the general idea of computing how interesting an image or media object is to a person or set of people.”

yeah what is up with that yahoo?

Should Yahoo use Google?

there’s an easy fix for Yahoo if its Panama search platform doesn’t succeed: revert to being a Google affiliate, as it was before the company bought Overture. this could yield higher EBITDA, margin and growth along with lower execution risk.