Honeymoon Over For Google?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @10:22AM from the honeymoons-are-temporary dept.

scubacuda writes "Business Week has an article on some of the challenges Google faces as it gains popularity. For a while, things were looking good: unobtrusive ads, a hardware search appliance, and the fact that 'google' has become a verb (like xerox, kleenex, hoover, etc.). Now, Yahoo! has dropped the 'exclusive' part of its contract, Overture won a series of key contracts, Verity has announced a deal to purchase Inktomi's assets, and Y! announced it was buying Inktomi's web-search business. And other engines such as WiseNut, Teoma, and FAST now mimic Google's 'popularity placement technology.'"

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MOD PARENT DOWN -1 Overrated by LostCluster · 2003-01-14 10:55 · Score: 0, Troll

"Yahoo" is a word that occurs naturally in the english language, and also is the name of a search engine. "Google" and "Altavista" are made-up words to refer to search engines.

So, of course there's going to be more mentions of "yahoo" on the web because it has two contexts in which it can be used, and not all of them relate to the "search engine" turned "web portal" company. Only a yahoo like you would make such an apples-to-oranges comparison.