searchenginejournal.com— A look into the mission statements and direction of Google & Yahoo, and whether machine driven information will prevail over human knowledge.
May 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
That was a nice little analyzation, but with all due respect, ultimately useless. They're talking about a ***Mission Statement***. Mission Statements are quaint little public relation bolsters, little slogans, catch phrases, show tunes, or overall, the Small Picture.I can see the significance of making this change, I do think this should arouse our interests somehow, and I was unaware of that particular change, but this change should not necessarily make us question the performance of the companies.I've been on a lot of techy teams for all sorts of activities; robots, programming, racing, etc., but do you know what? These slogans and mission statements are rather useless. I've seen plenty of teams with mission statements better than my team's, sometimes those teams do better, sometimes they do not. The very same goes for the other mission statements of poorer quality. The rise or downfall of companies has very little to do with their mission statements. Even some teams and companies with a confirmed direction in a mission statement go against that statement for a year or so.Ultimately, the mission statement is a grammarian war, and has little grounds concerning these two companies. If we want to make a comparison on performance, quality, longevity, growth in the industry, etc., please let us not be concerned with the mission statement. Luckily, here at digg we're at least leaning more towards comparing Yahoo groups to Google groups, Gmail to Yahoo mail, or either messenger. These are more of the discussion we should be having on the topic. Please clearly see through the politics.Personally, I don't see anything beating Gmail (regarding quality) any time soon, hands down the best web mail. Yahoo groups probably has a larger user base due to seniority, although I'm not particularly found of their reliability, and I would give Google groups something like a B+. Yahoo messenger definitely wins over the Google messenger in my opinion.I agree with rofflcopter and hays. I don't think either will be going away soon, nor do I believe I will simply be using one of the companies for all my endeavors.The Man vs. Machine metaphor seems out of place too. I don't see a Paul Bunyan story in this, the Matrix, nothing really...Just 2 Rock 'em Sock 'em robots really, with 2 geeky kids mashing on the buttons and laughing a bit. Man I miss that game...
There are more (probably smarter) people working on algorithms at Google than Yahoo. A better analogy would be a modern army with advanced weapon (Google) vs a bunch of peasants (Yahoo).
infowarMay 16, 2007
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ablez3May 17, 2007
Google already beat god.its just matter of time now.....praise the all knowing algorithm!!!
yiloveyiMay 17, 2007
i love google
foremutoMay 17, 2007
The way of the middle should prevail. Neither pure machine nor pure human can perform flawlessly.
highonfireMay 17, 2007
google just seems too sterile. i like the growing human element of yahoo
umaycallmevMay 17, 2007
That was a nice little analyzation, but with all due respect, ultimately useless. They're talking about a ***Mission Statement***. Mission Statements are quaint little public relation bolsters, little slogans, catch phrases, show tunes, or overall, the Small Picture.I can see the significance of making this change, I do think this should arouse our interests somehow, and I was unaware of that particular change, but this change should not necessarily make us question the performance of the companies.I've been on a lot of techy teams for all sorts of activities; robots, programming, racing, etc., but do you know what? These slogans and mission statements are rather useless. I've seen plenty of teams with mission statements better than my team's, sometimes those teams do better, sometimes they do not. The very same goes for the other mission statements of poorer quality. The rise or downfall of companies has very little to do with their mission statements. Even some teams and companies with a confirmed direction in a mission statement go against that statement for a year or so.Ultimately, the mission statement is a grammarian war, and has little grounds concerning these two companies. If we want to make a comparison on performance, quality, longevity, growth in the industry, etc., please let us not be concerned with the mission statement. Luckily, here at digg we're at least leaning more towards comparing Yahoo groups to Google groups, Gmail to Yahoo mail, or either messenger. These are more of the discussion we should be having on the topic. Please clearly see through the politics.Personally, I don't see anything beating Gmail (regarding quality) any time soon, hands down the best web mail. Yahoo groups probably has a larger user base due to seniority, although I'm not particularly found of their reliability, and I would give Google groups something like a B+. Yahoo messenger definitely wins over the Google messenger in my opinion.I agree with rofflcopter and hays. I don't think either will be going away soon, nor do I believe I will simply be using one of the companies for all my endeavors.The Man vs. Machine metaphor seems out of place too. I don't see a Paul Bunyan story in this, the Matrix, nothing really...Just 2 Rock 'em Sock 'em robots really, with 2 geeky kids mashing on the buttons and laughing a bit. Man I miss that game...
vicayaMay 17, 2007
There are more (probably smarter) people working on algorithms at Google than Yahoo. A better analogy would be a modern army with advanced weapon (Google) vs a bunch of peasants (Yahoo).
chrism1128May 17, 2007
Who will win, Man or Machine?Didn't he see The Terminator? Machines!However, I do think that Yahoo! could carve out a different nitch.