bits.blogs.nytimes.com— After more than a year of development, Yahoo is rolling out a new home page in a bid to remake itself for users, advertisers and investors.
Jul 21, 2009View in Crawl 4
"ignore their popularity"Look, when people refer to your service by your competitor's name, the best you can pretty much ever hope for is a distant second.What I mean by that is that google is so ubiquitous, people refer to searching the web as "googling." Yahoo's web portal may have more visitors than google's portal, but when you consider how many more people search on google rather than yahoo, maybe that just means that more people prefer not to have a portal at all.
Funny how one search portal "wins" by the vague notion it's somehow better--and can charge more for advertising.Google may be the "winner" now, but when will it be the next Yahoo? How much capital do these guys burn through?
This is crap! Over a year to develop and you turn out this kinda crap. Yahoo, you are so much better than this. Kick that s**t to the curb and start from scratch, come up with a brilliant idea that will draw people to your site, not repulse them.
insertaliashereJul 21, 2009
"ignore their popularity"Look, when people refer to your service by your competitor's name, the best you can pretty much ever hope for is a distant second.What I mean by that is that google is so ubiquitous, people refer to searching the web as "googling." Yahoo's web portal may have more visitors than google's portal, but when you consider how many more people search on google rather than yahoo, maybe that just means that more people prefer not to have a portal at all.
perrymJul 21, 2009
i still cant believe yahoo turned down a microsoft takeover.microsoft really dodged the bullet there.
bradb59Jul 21, 2009
how many #1 web sites does Google have? compared to Yahoo?or.. lets compare mail accounts? hmm... fanboy anyone?
marinistJul 21, 2009
Funny how one search portal "wins" by the vague notion it's somehow better--and can charge more for advertising.Google may be the "winner" now, but when will it be the next Yahoo? How much capital do these guys burn through?
sometoastJul 22, 2009
OMG? That's <a class="user" href="http://omg.yahoo.com/">http://omg.yahoo.com/</a> It's a celebrity/entertainment site that came out two years ago. Today it gets more traffic than the #2 TMZ and #3 People sites combined.
cage1220Jul 22, 2009
This is crap! Over a year to develop and you turn out this kinda crap. Yahoo, you are so much better than this. Kick that s**t to the curb and start from scratch, come up with a brilliant idea that will draw people to your site, not repulse them.