New website using google

Excite owner starting cross between Yahoo and Google

[allonline]

Anyone seen the story on Yahoo news, internet section of myway.com. A sort of Yahoo without Ads that uses Google.

Looks ok, fast loading.

started by the businessman that bought Excite and owns Iwon.

[lazerzubb]

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[rcjordan]

I'll add that someone with media connections is really doing a number on this roll-out. "Yahoo is Toast" and the new rival's domain are running on the ticker at the bottom of the CNN Headline News TV program this morning. That should spike some traffic.

[Mike_Mackin]

'Yahoo! is toast' [money.cnn.com]

[2_much]

I kinda like the idea and the principle. I for one will migrate there, Yahoo's got me paying for a whole lot of stuff I can get for free elsewhere. So I'm out.

[chiyo]

OK it's a nice spin.

I have to admit I thought Y! would go quicker towards charging for "value added" and "premium" services and were in a good position to do it. They DO have good services that all interealte with each other, especially for novice users.

Their mistake i feel is to also up the advertising content much faster. On dial up it's almost more trouble than its worth. Using both models aggressively I feel is too much long term for the average user.

[Beachboy]

With the Google/Dmoz directory in place, too...complete with PageRank indicators on the Dmoz pages.

[Powdork]

Yahoo! (YHOO: Research, Estimates) now charges for many once-free services and peppers its site with a variety of ads that slow the site's loading speed.

I noticed about a month ago that when you hit a news story on Yahoo! and then click on the 'more' link there is an unnecessary pause before loading the small page so we can look at the ad for two seconds. As someone who pays monthly for cable to eliminate these delays, I find it very distasteful. Thankfully, the obnoxious full page ads that used to be at the entry to the sports pages are gone(as far as I can tell).
I'll be sad to see Yahoo! go, but only because I've been ranking so well there since the directory was downplayed.

They still have no pagerank. I would think they would have something coming out of the gate. Also, you would think one of those 157 could get to work on the Opera thing by now.

[mayor]

Beachboy >> With the Google/Dmoz directory in place, too

Wow! What does this tell you about the Google/Yahoo matrimony after all? Will Yahoo retaliate?