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Yahoo Fights Back in Battle With Google
ChipGuy writes "Om Malik has a great analysis of how Yahoo is fighting back the Google assault. 'A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys - (Odd Post and Flickr) have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes.' Yahoo's new initiatives like Yahoo 360 are even apprently making Yahoo Web 2.0 compliant."
The only "chattering classes" I see using Yahoo! on most of its News stories are drunken rednecks and other wart-covered trolls who bitch and whine about gays and blacks all the time. Perhaps implementing some quality control on their own services would be a good start in fixing their public image and raise its own status as something better than a mere soapbox for trailer trash.
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the only one they purchased was dejanews and yeah they haven't done a whole lot with it, but i haven't seen a lot of need for much change with that particular feature
When Google buys something and doesn't modify it: Oh, but it didn't need any modifications.
When Yahoo buys something and doesn't modify it: Look how they've let this wonderful product squander.
I'd say that satisfies cult-like status. When people have one set of rules for 1 search engine and another set of rules for all other search engines, it definitely reaks of cult like status.
cult like status may be true, though i might add it sounds like you are purposefully sounding contrarian, but i would say it stems from two things
Translation: Google has cult status, but it deserves it's status.