garyr_h - 5:39 pm on Nov 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

gamiziuk,

I agree with you. That is perhaps one of the best things Yahoo could do with the situation they are in. Start by offering to Canada, then move to the UK and other English speaking countries, then move slowly across Europe, then Asia, South America, etc. etc. until all the countries they wish to be in it are.

This would help slowly build the publisher base and advertiser base while keeping the confidence in both sides that they are improving and beginning to include others in the program. YPN doesn't have to go public all at once, they can do it slowly.

trungngo,

I agree with you a lot, however, I don't think they are as in dire need as you seem to have specified. Yahoo is slowly losing shares, however, with an improvement of their SERPs and the eventual increase of advertisers/publishers (at least, if the program gets pushed out the right way, not too fast, not too slow and continue to improve both), they could really hit a homerun and take a chunk out of what Google has in those areas. Yahoo is still the #1 site, no doubt about it. They just need to put their efforts more into consolidating what they have and making the most out of what they could have.

For instance, why three totally different bookmarking systems? Consolidate them! Make them work together. With del.ico.us being a simple, easy to use service, leave it be. However, add a feature to it to allow more complexity, which would be the Yahoo side of things. The Yahoo Bookmarks/360 could be features, features features, with del.ico.us doing what it always has. Or perhaps, go one better and make it all del.ico.us, just put in user preferences so if they don't want all the complexity, they don't have to have it.

The same could be said about their finance sector, image programs, etc. They are just too big and need better communications.

I've read before, not sure where but I'm think it was Jen's blog (sorry if it's not), that Yahoo's sectors do not communicate at all. Why?