What Happened to Yahoo?
- Thread starter Magic Hat
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Thanks for the article. Their acquisition of Flickr - and the aftermath of that - is still one of the more baffling decisions recently, in my opinion. Also ties in with the whole article's argument. Oh how the mighty have fallen...maybe in some sort of parallel universe, we'd now be social networking using our Geocities pages.
I remember when their directory was hard as fuck to get into and everyone wanted to get listed. People would say "fuck yeah, I got listed in yahoo," when it was really google search engine. Then yahoo started charging $199 for listings and since mostly the only ones paying that were corporatons, their directory started looking like the mall. Once people realized the real results were from google, they just went to google's site instead because their page didn't have all that crap on it.
To some extend it is depressing for Yahoo. Yahoo should have stressed on Search rather than Banner ads back then when Google was still a newbie in the market and should have brought Google for some Millions or Less. I petty for Yahoo Executives. You made the wrong decision...!! Google has been a long run winner in this marathon till now.. !!
If you accept that the universe is truly infinite, then every conceivable scenario (as well as inconceivable) does in fact exist somewhere else. It has to, for the universe is infinite, so at some point whatever it is you imagine would have to exist somewhere. For instance, somewhere in the great wide universe, a man that looks exactly like me with a house exactly like mine is responding to a message exactly like this, but his name is actually Blarfintripe.
Oh and the vBulletin theme on Wickedfire is all bright and polka dotted.
And Blarfintripe has two dicks.
Thanks for the article. Yeah $200 for the privileged to be listed in the holy directory in a universe far far away.
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Love this last line.
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Love this last line.
Who is the winner now?
Although I agree, honestly I don't see an enormously bright future for google. They used to be the trend-setters of the business, now it seems every update they come up with is a counter to a competitor. Emulating Bing's options, trying to compete with FB, etc.
Google's brilliance is that it becomes exponentially better. The more data it accumulates the better they can improve it's quality. The more it's quality improves the more people use it to search....and the cycle continues.
When you need to research something, you head over to Bing? Nigga please...
Google will be very hard to beat for years to come, at least when it comes to search. The amount of data being added to the internets every day is astounding and some company has to be able to weed through all that shit. Google aint going nowhere son.
That's what happens when you think your Snob.
Any company that acts this way, including it's Management, deserves to be outdated, old and stupid. Go new trendsetters, with smart and lean Managers. That day may never come.
Apple, Facebook now. Let's see about them. ? . ? Wonder where they'll be in 10yrs. Apple may be the winner? (If they can go corporate/servers/etc -- lots of Market Share to gain).
Any company that acts this way, including it's Management, deserves to be outdated, old and stupid. Go new trendsetters, with smart and lean Managers. That day may never come.
Apple, Facebook now. Let's see about them. ? . ? Wonder where they'll be in 10yrs. Apple may be the winner? (If they can go corporate/servers/etc -- lots of Market Share to gain).
