Comments on: Reinventing Yahoo

By: irone

irone — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:28:56 +0000

well, I first used yahoo for searching or add my url since 1998!Then I know about Google in 2000. Google is easily add any url submitted (i use submitexpress.com), while yahoo (and also altavista) is so carefull to add any new url. Jerry, The consequence is the “url(s) content” on Google is more than yahoo. that’s way I (and many people) prefer Google to yahoo.

By: Mitesh Rami

Mitesh Rami — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:40:46 +0000

wel not atall a bad idea if msn and yahoo get merged

then they both combined can easly give a fight to google

currently google is king

its best by far

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:19:57 +0000

Ha – David I …. um … think I could but it would take more mental energy than I can muster because I agree there would be many problems and some downside risk.

The gist of why I think it’s a good plan:

Google has gotten too good for either Yahoo or MSN to compete with alone.

MSN struggles in many ways at most things online. I think they’ve become used to calling shots and they can’t do this effectively online. They are moving in right direction though and could expedite this with a Yahoo aquisition.

Yahoo in many ways is a lot like Google, but with (until recently) more problematic high level management. Yahoo’s been better than Google at several “Web 2.0″ endeavors (e.g. Flickr), bringing together the best MSN and Yahoo peeps in innovative ways and with creative incentive pay and optionizing should bring some synergy to the mix, and help with sagging morale that seems rampant at MSN and Yahoo.

Mostly because Yahoo is very big online and very cheap. Would MSN ruin Yahoo with it’s heavier, slower management style? I don’t think so – in fact I think Yahoo may need this type of kick in the pants shakeup to get back on track.

But…what the heck do I know?

By: David

David — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:57:06 +0000

Can you make a compelling post for why MSN and Yahoo! should merge and how they’d be effectively integrated? (investment bankers getting rich doesn’t count as a good reason)

I still have yet to see anyone do this.