On Yahoo!'s Acquisitions 108
Barry Norton writes "The Guardian has quite an insightful article about recent Yahoo acquisitions Delicious and Flickr. They quote Joshua Schachter, Delicious' creator: 'We're excited to be working with the Yahoo search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin, Flickr!' And why Yahoo's interest? The article opines: 'It takes a lot of the hard work out of searching the web. The very clever thing about social software is that it puts the burden on to the user, not the provider.'"
wrong idea about Social Networks and search (Score:5, Insightful)
If this is how Yahoo sees it, they're missing the point. Yahoo (and other web-portals) can use Social Networks to learn more about their users. For instance, a certain social circle may all be members of a bowling league, so maybe show bowling ball advertisers to people that have a direct connection with the bowling league circle. The connection I see is more in delivering more appropriate content to users, not saving money on search.
So how long... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:wrong idea about Social Networks and search (Score:4, Insightful)
That's just part of it.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:They bought it... (Score:5, Insightful)
Launch.com was great, until Yahoo took it over and made it completely fucking useless and annoying.
Yahoo and Google (Score:5, Insightful)
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Can someone explain this to me, and in a way that doesn't involve singular instances... a broad spectrum view of why so many people are so keen on Google and so unkeen on Yahoo...
I'd really like to know!
Re:Yahoogle (Score:2, Insightful)
Google started free email? No.
Google started newsgroups? No.
Google started analytics? No.
Google started online advertising? No.
Google started satelite maps? No.
Google started blogging? No.
Google started toolbars? No.
The only innovative thing Google has done is convince the masses a corporation is unable to do evil. And that's only innovative because nobody else has succeeded at it before.
Re:That's just part of it.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yahoogle (Score:5, Insightful)
Yahoo HomePage is TOO BUSY. (Score:2, Insightful)
but it justs looks too busy.
Google - damn - the logo, the search box, some small print.
Sweet Perfection!
Google could do something to clean up those page designs.
And drop any useless graphics and go easy on the advertisements.
Especially moving GIF, Flash, talking video ads with sound, etc.
Ads that complex are just annoying, not encouraging business.
Re:Yahoo and Google (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Innovation vs Improvement (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:So how long... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Yahoo and Google (Score:1, Insightful)
www.yahoo.com vs. news.google.com
Both cluttered with crap I can't be arsed reading there because I can get it skewed and triple-fisted on SlashDot instead.
Comparing Yahoo!'s search site to Google is a little more even:
search.yahoo.com vs. www.google.com
Re:Yahoo and Google (Score:2, Insightful)
You can bet your ass, they will (Score:3, Insightful)