I am glad to see Yahoo speak up. Maybe they should tell their CFO to shut the hell up then? It was a quote from a yahoo executive. Or maybe it was a false quote? That is always possible...
So long as the site doesn't get sandboxed (Which a: Doesn't always heppen and b: is possible to avoid), Google is the easiest of the 3. I keep finding myself using MSN and Yahoo, simply because I just can't find what I'm looking for on Google... Generally though, Google's results seem better.
Hmmm... I can honestly say that it's rare that I can't find what I want with Google and that if I don't find it there the most likely second choice is Google Groups (for troubelshooting questions). I can't recall ever going to MSN or Yahoo and finding something that Google didn't find.
As long as stock analysts are basing their judgments of Yahoo value against Google search versus Yahoo search they are going to suffer with every Google gain. If they can divorce themselves from being just a search engine and get the analysts to look at the whole package, and not just search they have a better shot at getting better valuations. The first step is to say what he said. best regards wiz
Hmm....interesting article there. Well, google is strong in many ways so there are no point this one can be beaten.
Yahoo! is a web portal. I'm sure they don't need to be better than Google in order to do well. Maybe it would be a waste of their energy and time to focus on searches while generating income in so many other ways. Yahoo! has a ton of staying power, and their popularity doesn't seem to suffer. I see a lot of negativity from seo's, but out there, do people really talk about Yahoo! results? No. People don't like the results, they don't use them. They use Google, but do they generate more money for Google or for Yahoo! overall? If Yahoo! cared about search results, they would pay more attention to it. They don't - and I believe the statement meant "We don't care about search results", but since it hit a sour note they pretended to care afterwards. I think people here are infected by the seo tunnel vision. We see the low quality of results, but people still use their search engine. The masses don't care unless they get their noses rubbed in it.
lmao @ Las Vegas Homes, Yes it would be funny to see microsoft by yahoo. I think microsoft can do alot with the search engine industry and will overtake yahoo sometime. Eventually I think they will become Google's biggest contender. But as it stands now, Google is King, or Queen lol. And the traffic google can provide is un-paralleled. Brad
Yahoo, MSN and Google has their own strength and weekness. Yahoo provides better user-browsing experience. I never saw a website that has lots of popups or website that contains spywares in their search results. MSN, I can see more new website in MSN than in other search engine. Their result is fresh but not very relevant. As for Google, they are able to find you a relevant result, but the one they recommend will always be the same website. No other resources. Within those webpages their had in their index "currently 8 billions", how many pages did they use for their search result. Probably not more than 10%
I loved the article. Do you think that Yahoo is a viable competitor considering that Google has a current share price of well over 400 dollars and yahoo is not even close to this?
I dont think share price really has too much to do with it. Share price is simple an indication on how well investors think google is performing for them. Yahoo could just not be making as much money as google. But if they do alot of work, they could become a viable competitor. I mean hey they are doing okay right now I wouldnt be complaining if i owned a piece of yahoo. Brad
Share price is also a function of how many shares are in existence. For example, if Google decided to do a stock split tomorrow, their shares would suddenly be worth half of their value today. That wouldn't mean Google was worth a cent less though, of course. Nortel is about to seek permission to do it the other way around - to consolidate shares which are now hoevering around $1 - $2 a share, after being at $100+ in the hey day of the tech boom. Consolidation won't make the company worth any more - it will just reduce the number of shares on the market and make the price per share look a little less embarrassing for them.