They’re an opinion piece from the Marc and Angel Blog which compares Yahoo & Google and appears to be making it to the Digg homepage quite shortly.
Google handles all of my daily web searching, email, chat, RSS feeds, blog monetization, etc. In my opinion, it blows Yahoo (and most other Internet companies) clear out of the water. However, there are a select few services that I regularly turn to Yahoo for. Why? Its either because Yahoo does it better, or because Google doesnt offer it.
I found the post interesting because it addresses the underlying split loyalty in the Internet industry to different companies due to their different features and niche dominance.
For example, most Internet users in the US prefer Google Search to Yahoo Search, but still may use Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports or Yahoo Finance on a loyal & daily basis.
I had posted a while back how Yahoo’s MyYahoo startpage now lets its users check their GMail accounts via Yahoo, which was a smartm ove on their parts because it helps curb user attrition to Google via GMail dependence.
Google uses similar aggregation tactics, with its video search for example; it’s more efficient to search for MySpace or iFilm videos on Google than on the sites themselves. And with the new Google SocialStream project, Google looks to be the centralized network for keeping track of various social network friends and interfaces, since many of us have multiple MyBlogLog, MySpace, Facebook and other social accounts.
So, what does Yahoo still do better than Google? Here’s a roundup (but for all of the info check out the original blog):
1. Yahoo Finance
2. Yahoo Answers : Q&A
3. Backlink Reporting via Yahoo Site Explorer
4. Flickr : Photo Uploading & Sharing
5. Local Search : Nuff Said
6. Entertainment
7. Privacy
Can you think of any others?
Comments
16 responses so far ↓
Vygantas on Jul 10, 2007 at 11:08 am
Yahoo sites don’t su*k?
Bashar on Jul 10, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I agree with most of them. Listing them down by it self proves Google is superior overall. I think Yahoo Web Chat could be better than Google Talk in some ways. It’s much more colorful and friendly. However Google Talk is better in that it can be resized and runs transient of your Gmail browsing, it doesn’t have to take the full screen.
Passenger 57 on Jul 10, 2007 at 4:35 pm
email
games
weather
jobs search
travel
directory
flickr :)
Sushubh on Jul 10, 2007 at 5:26 pm
flickr for sure. the only yahoo service i use regularly…
Ramenos on Jul 11, 2007 at 7:51 am
Flickr and Privaçy for sure…
Mukesh on Jul 12, 2007 at 1:32 am
Site explorer rocks! It’s a lifeline for all SEOs and As the one and only engine in the industry tat offers the service, we got to thank yahoo for keeping the service alive and trying to make it better.
Nithish on Dec 18, 2007 at 9:43 am
Google is better in providing contextual ads as it contains a huge number of advertisers. And also the YPN is limited to around UK and US.
Mr. Cool on Jul 9, 2008 at 9:02 pm
smallbusiness :D
TalehGreene on Oct 23, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I heard that Yahoo uses 3rd party search engine. Could someone please tell me what search engine they use?
Ruvim on Dec 5, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I still think that Google is better.
seminar on Feb 11, 2009 at 11:11 am
this is very interesting site where i can grab more information for my carrier
remshad on Mar 9, 2009 at 4:14 pm
why i not believe google is better
Google Guy on Mar 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Google thrashes Yahoo when it comes to searching. Why would you want to use Yahoo when you’ve got Google? Google is the best, and that is why almost everyone prefers it. Google makes Yahoo look like a site for 2 year olds.
‘Long live Google’
Rudy Hassen on Mar 25, 2009 at 12:35 am
I still use google a lot, but I’m starting to use yahoo and searchme a bit more. goog lists a lot when you search, but I find it shows me so many unrelated sites it’s ridiculous. I think the web should just be for me and the stuff i want to see. Everyone else should use something else like catalogs or something.
Hadi on Apr 15, 2009 at 1:49 am
I also think some of yahoo’s services is better than google. But yahoo websites load slower than google. If only yahoo can make their websites faster.
Gavin on May 8, 2009 at 11:20 am
Yahoo = Fail! Google is good, but a better comparison would be between windowslive and google. Any email service that wants you to pay for pop and imap is a cult. They some how dupe people into paying more for less. Which seems to work on consumers today. While Gmail is not perfect i think that it completely blows yahoo out of the water. I wish that google would learn from windows live and make the ultimate everything. Or vica-versa.
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