Overture and Alltheweb subforums

Killing them off?

[mquarles]

If the goal of making them subforums of Yahoo! was to kill them off, I think it's working.

If the goal is something else, I'm not sure it is.

I feel we're becoming Googlefied around here. Separate forums for:
- Google AdWords
- Google AdSense
- Froogle
- Google News
- Google Toolbar
- Google IPO Watch

but Overture doesn't rate its own forum even though the Overture forum has more posts than 3 of the 6 above and the same number as a 4th?

MQ

[mfishy]

hehe, I always thought the Google IPO and toolbar forums were a stretch but what do i know?

[DaveAtIFG]

pssst! I agree, too much Google, but don't tell the boss I said that! ;)

Nobody (except maybe Yahoo!) is planning on killing any forums off. According to my scorecard, Yahoo recently acquired Ink and Overture. Shortly before that, Overture had acquired AltaVista and AllTheWeb. Yahoo recently formally announced plans to replace Google results "with their own technology." Until we know what that is and how it impacts all those aquired companies...

There has been some interesting discussion in the mods forum on this very topic.

[Brett_Tabke]

g continues to be split for tech reasons (we just can't handle that volume under one directory/forum. We are still looking for ways to split off even more subtopics).

On the other hand - all signs point to INK, ATW, and AV being discontinued as brand names. So, that is just collating them for future absorbtion by yahoo anyway.