atlrus - 10:58 pm on Aug 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Before that Yahoo got their results from Inktomi

God, did you take me back...:) I remember those days... Of course I was talking about present day, not something 5-10 years ago (i know, i wrote it wrong). There is no reason to hire a bunch of programmers if you are not going to be in the game, was my main point.

Now saying that "we were never in the search business" is simply loser-talk. I agree, Yahoo was never ALL ABOUT search, but the commercials they ran would've made you think so...Well, they gave it a shot, realized they sucked at it and now it's going to MSN, which is great news. Bing is at least trying.

My fortunes are tied to my pages

The way I see it - their fortunes are tied only to the habit some people have for visiting Yahoo. And in all honesty, if you've never visited Yahoo before and land on thier home page - I bet you'd have no idea what this company does. Heck, I don't even know what Yahoo does, nor their CEOs over the past few years. Are they a search company, a news portal, a game website or simply the longer way to get to facebook?!? For quite a few years people have lost interest in visiting "a portal to the web", rather they are looking for particular sites - news, games, forums, reviews, whatever. Google got it right and build their business on this, while Yahoo is stuck in the 90's.

tell me what these game sites are where you can play almost every type of card game and other games with real people. We're not talking flash games, but multiplayer games.

I don't know. But if you search on Google I am sure you will find them :) for example, search for "play card games with real people"