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I suspect such layoff notices may become a common occurance for many Internet companies over the next few months.
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Company executives have said that to achieve its “starting point” goal, Yahoo would continue to invest in areas like Internet search, e-mail, the Yahoo front page and the personalized home-page service MyYahoo, as well as news, finance and sports.
That should put the Y! is going with Live.com rumor to rest.
The search thing is a matter of pride: Yahoo would be admitting it failed and failed miserably, so they would have to think really hard. Plus, once gone, it's gone. They can't start it again in 6 months. Judging by the deal G offered myspace, when accounting for expenses, Y! might be better off, but then what is Yahoo with no search of it's own? Didn't the start as a directory?
Google went public so Yahoo severed the relationship and settled a longstanding lawsuit because Google basically created adwords with stolen overture code.
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in regards to a MS Live / Yahoo partnership there has been tons of buzz on a MS aquisition of Yahoo and many reported backend talks taking place between the two companies. MS and Yahoo have always had a very strong relationship going back years, heck at one point Yahoo served ads for MSN for a long time.
Eventually to take on Google they will have to combine the efforts of there portals or Google is just going to keep chipping away at the stone. It's fun to speculate:)
Yahoo has held the #2 position for Web search traffic and are still ahead of MSN, not to mention Ask and others.
I gave up advertising with Yahoo bacause it took ten days to sort out simple problems that should have been dealt with in minutes. They need more staff not fewer IMO.
Like I said this is all speculation:)
I think it is very clear that Yahoo has lost the search battle long ago and Microsoft, well we wont even go there.
They are goldfish swimming in a ocean trying to evade the great white shark called Google.
There 4 serious companies in the SEO race - Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.
Google accounts for more search traffic then all the other competitors combined.
Does it really matter if Yahoo comes in 2nd?
That's like me boasting that I came in 2nd in a 2 man race with Carl Lewis.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
1) www.google.com - 65.98%
2) search.yahoo.com - 20.88%
3) search.msn.com - 7.04%*
4) www.ask.com - 4.14%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods ending Dec. 29, 2007 from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.
Search Query Volumes DEC-07 (Millions)
1) Google - 5,643
2) Yahoo - 1,386
3) MSN - 746
4) ASK - 298
This translates to: "No less than 5.56 billion queries were entered into Google in December of 2007, out of the total of 8.2 billion searches performed by U.S. users."
In my humble opinion, the market (i.e. internet users) voted a long time ago that Yahoo was no longer an authoritative source for search information by switching to Google.
Ummm. Yeah. You still can make a fortune, unlike in your the Lewis scenario. I'd live to #10 in my area
MS Small Business could suck in the Y! Stores and integrate office technologies. Y! Music could be integrated into Zune & Zune Social for further as well as finally brought in for music downloads on the xbox 360.
Y! Search could take over from the fledgling "live" brand and allow MS to brand live for its gaming/CE division vs search (Which seems better to me).
It would be a colossal effort on many fronts but if the right people were to do it, it could be a wise purchase to put a single face against another colossal giant.
Why is Google really preferred as a search engine? Is it the algorithm? No. It's just plain simple to use and doesn't have all that advertising clutter.
Yahoo still shows up as number one due to them using the free Yahoo email service. Web users are logging on to their Yahoo emails and not really using Yahoo for search.
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Google went public so Yahoo severed the relationship and settled a longstanding lawsuit because Google basically created adwords with stolen overture code.
I think this is complete rubbish insofar as "stolen code" is concerned - there was never a copyright infringement issue there, only patent one - Google used patented idea that should have never been patented in the first place, but crazy patent laws in USA allow patenting of obvious business processes (one click checkout) and algorithms (Google's PageRank).
