Unfortunately not.
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| jezuch Jul 10, 2008 10:20 PM EDT |
Quoting:Google controls too much market share and too much related search revenue. A counterbalancing force is needed to keep the system healthy. And Microsoft or Yahoo standing alone cannot counter Google. That sounds great, except that it's not true. Microsoft will buy Yahoo with good intentions and then will unintentionally kill it because it won't know how to handle it. So, instead of two competitors, as it is now, Google will have just one unimportant and one almost completely dead. |
| techiem2 Jul 11, 2008 4:16 AM EDT |
Especially if they do toss out the current board. Great. Buy a successful company and toss out the very people who made is successful. Yeah, that's a great way to gain a good foothold in a market you've been trying to get into unsuccessfully. |
| Sander_Marechal Jul 11, 2008 6:21 AM EDT |
Here's hoping that Yahoo stays a separate entity. Yahoo just made a very interesting move: They're releasing all their search APIs for free. That means that you can create your own search engine, define your own ranking and search algorithms and have Yahoo power everything. You don't even need to acknowledge Yahoo on your site. The only thing that you need to do is also display Yahoo's sponsored search results. IMHO a very smart move. This should draw in lots of small, specialized search portals thereby increasing Yahoo's market share. Big search engines like Google are great, but the more content there is on the net, the more I go to specialised search engines such as Technorati or koders.com. Much less noise to filter out. Anyone interested in building a search portal aimed at everything FOSS? :-) Edit: See http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9282 |
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