trungngo - 10:23 pm on Nov 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Yeap. You are right. It is not to under-estimate yahoo but if yahoo vs google. Yahoo doesn't get any chance!

The odd thing is I used to think it was the other way around and I believe that alot of people here feel that way too.

If you flash back 5 years ago then you have a good reason to believe that.
Yahoo is #1 (and by far #1)
* Yahoo dropped Inktomi => Stock dropped => Ink died
* Popular Altavista went portal => but got crush
* #2 Excite portal => Went flat
* Lycos Tera Network => Went down hill
* MyWay (Yahoo brother) => Became phenemonal success

And the games continued which the biggest competitors failed and falled to the hand of Yahoo.

* FAST TRANSFER exited the web search business
* Altavista, AllTheWeb got bought out by Overture and eventually, Overture was fallen to Yahoo
* Inktomi, the pioneer in web search for so long, the dominant player also surrended to Yahoo

With these acquistions, Yahoo left Microsoft MSN goes no where. (No search engine, no ppc and still binded by the contracts with Overture for years which make Yahoo total control over MSN Network.)

The only key option at that time was Microsoft to acquired Google (which good at search but still small and affordable) and acquired FindWhat and trouble Aol to comparable to Yahoo.

If Google vs Yahoo at that time, then it was like Google vs YouTube today. A cake for Yahoo. Yahoo just simply bought Google out just like that. (Google was estmated to worth about 2-5 billions ranges. At that time, I believed Yahoo marketed cap was around 45 billions)

But look at how fast things have changed. Today Yahoo market cap: 36 billions while Google market cap: 151 billions which is almost 5 times Yahoo.

MS almost has everything Yahoo has.

For Yahoo, During the last 5 years it goes around and went back to the point it started. Absolutely no significant changes. The only changes I saw were it keep loosing Market Share, Partners, Users, Webmasters, Stock and now Google Network is about to over take Yahoo Network at the biggest traffic network on the web.

For me, I don't undertand, I don't get it, It is un-believable how Yahoo from the dominant position has fallen too far behind its competitors.

Can anyone have a good reason ... why?