AhmedF - 7:40 pm on Mar 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

So - the only similarity between Yahoo News and Google News is that one is manual (Yahoo News) and the other automated (Google News).

In what reality do you live in which makes you say that Google News is inspired by Yahoo News? Because they talk about News? Amazing!

And I never said Hotmail won. The fact is that Hotmail was the first large-scale webmail service. So if you are going to say that Google copied Yahoo when it came to webmail, perhaps you should say that both just copied Hotmail.

I don't have Google goggles on. The fact of the matter is that the Yahoo director compares their ~10 year old service vs Google's not even 3 years old service.

I think you may be confusing inertia with prefer and the Y! director is confusing it with usability.