Comments on: Yahoo Cedes Victory to Google?

By: Walt C.

Walt C. — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:35:18 +0000

I say… just use squeba! (squeba dot com) | This site combined the best search engines on one page (google, yahoo, msn) … they also included boxes for ebay, wikipedia, and dictionary.com as well.

I use this as my start page and would never use a single start page again. Why choose just one when you can have them all?

go squeba!

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:35:11 +0000

I used to use iGoogle, but then I found Netvibes. Didn’t really looked back.

Especially with the Box.net widget…

By: liam

liam — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:22:45 +0000

Personalization is definitely the future for the web, but who’s going to use yahoo with iGoogle around?

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:46:19 +0000

Personally, I think Y! are doing the right thing.

They’ve been branching out into specialist social portals, such as Yahoo! OurCities, more commercial ventures such as the Brand Universe properties, as well as deals with Dash in-car Sat-Nav.

If getting into the whole social web thing is the way to go, then could we argue that Google are playing catch-up to Yahoo!?

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:13:45 +0000

I agree, I’m a bit disappointed with Yahoo stepping back and rethinking search – I saw them as a great alternative to Google. But this probably is the smart move on their part – no one is going to catch the G-men despite Microsoft’s willingness to throw money at any problem, at any time.

At least by taking it in another direction, Yahoo has a chance of uncovering the next big thing that we’ll all be talking about in 10 years.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:26:11 +0000

Pablo, I agree. I think Yahoo’s CEO (can’t remember her name) is so stockholder-centric that the whole company loses sight of the important person: the end user. They’ve got something Google doesn’t: Yahoo Pipes. But Google has all those great web 2.0 apps.

Yahoo: Stop competing with Google and just come out with more great apps.

By: Pablo Palatnik

Pablo Palatnik — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:22:31 +0000

It seems like Yahoo! is in a constant struggle trying to switch directions from where Google is headed. I think a lot of it has to do with its dissapointing Q1 with it’s shareholders…First it’s all about connectiong people..now it’s all about personalization. I think these are all good plans, but I think they do still compete with Google in search and releasing statements, etc. for stockholders and future stockholders, hoping to jump on board and hopefully get thier stock to rise.