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- tinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It will not work if MSN and Yahoo don't broaden their focus. Yahoo and MSN are close to nothing in Europe. Here in The Netherlands the average Internet user has never heard of Yahoo. MSN only scores points thanks to Hotmail and Messenger, but those products aren't easy to monetize. Google has everything, search, mail, analytics and a huge publisher network.
From a Non-US publisher's point of view Yahoo and MSN both s*ck big time. For more than a year I can't sign up for the YPN beta and I still can't sign up for Microsoft's Ad Center. Meanwhile Google is always very fast in localizing their products, even when they're in Beta. - vegasbright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google is an advertising company. Microsoft is not. Yahoo on the other hand...
- Phoenyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
I don't think you can pigeon-hole Google cleanly as either an advertising company or a web search company. - bubbagump, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Microsoft needs to stop chasing google, and start forging their own path. They will never win as long as they are 'chasing' anyone. This just means they lack their own vision, and are trying to capture some one else's....wait a minute...never mind.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google's click fraud protection system is insanely top-notch... yes they are having problems, but that only shows how hard people are working to find ways around it... yahoo or microsoft would have just as many problems... maybe not microsoft because they would probably go sue-happy and scare off most fraudsters.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's the nice difference between Google and Yahoo/Microsoft... Google never vowed anything... they just did their thing and rose to the top.
Google's like the cooler younger brother that everyone loves, and Microsoft and Yahoo are the older siblings that no one seems to care about while they desperately try to get attention. "Hey people... Look what I can do!" I guess what I'm trying to say is Microsoft and Yahoo are Emo's. - verstohlen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will Yahoo's overhauled advertising system be resistant to click-fraud? And Microsoft's? The article fails to even mention anything about that. Google sure has been having click-fraud problems.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/07/ap/business/mainD8HF4J5G0.shtml - zoombug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One thing Yahoo and MSN have over Google is a lot of user information, which theoretically means that even though they get fewer searches, better targeted ads can give them more money per search. Let's see if they can capitalize on that data.
Plus Yahoo is dominating Asia, which may prove to be more important than anything else. And their new search engine is arguably better than Google's now (search.yahoo.com). If I were to bet on the winner of the search marketing game, it would be Yahoo! or Google. - kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Google is a web search company
- shedao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will never work, it doesn't have web 2.1 with rounded boxes, hence I won't use it.
- MihaiM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now I make a few hundred dollars from AdSense. If Yahoo! or MSN could give me thousands for the same amount of traffic I'll go with them.
There were many other companies trying to fight Google in this segment but everyone failed (Remember Chitika).
I don't think they can do anything competitive. Yahoo! has an ad service in closed beta for over a year. - jdonner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And if you make more money with others, you're still a Google fan boy...?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If we expect that Microsoft will leverage its strengths against Google, I guess we'll be seeing Vista scanning our files and using that information to target ads to us.
- kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1that will be awesome
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1whilst im a major Google fanboi i am gonna pick what is gonna give me more money, regardless of ho its with.
- verstohlen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I've been finding better results on Yahoo than Google lately which I wasn't expecting, so I am using Google less. Some search phrases don't even show up on Google searches, but I have found them on Yahoo searches ("we're on patrol in the delta" in quotes is one phrase for example)
I am losing faith in Google, and that www.f*ckedgoogle.com website isn't helping matters.
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