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Yahoo Fights Back in Battle With Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-the-goofy-names dept.

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."

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  1. Provide Linux support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Providing Linux support will help! For example, Google should make Picasa for Linux! They can use autopackage to make it easier for installations.

  2. Money that's funny... by Duncan3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's profound just how much money these companies will spend to give things away for free.

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  3. I want alternatives to Yahoo and Google. by zymano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google is getting google-bombed .

    They are both ok.

    But I would like an alternative.

  4. Googlewars declares Yahoo the winner by ABeowulfCluster · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://www.googlewars.com/search.cfm?q1=Google&q2= yahoo "Googlewar "Google" vs. "yahoo" 164,000,000 results 294,000,000 results The winner is: yahoo"

  5. Re:Yankee Fans Overshadowed? by JakeD409 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...or else they meant Red Sox instead of Yankees. I mean, the keys are right next to each other.

  6. Re:Blogging is like a new sort of media by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear you. Someone else in this thread mentioned LiveJournal, so I found the site and clicked on their latest posts link to have a look. OMFG. I have never seen such mind-numbing drivel in all my life. These people really, truly think that someone else on this planet cares when they got up in the morning, or just exactly how drunk they got last night, or what incredibly cute thing their cat just did, or even (Cthulhu help us) their "poetry". Un-be-fucking-lievable. For the good of the species, I just hope that they succumb to alcohol poisoning before they figure out how to reproduce...

  7. Re:Bof... by KillerDeathRobot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think they'll do for Blogs what Geocities did for personal websites...

    You mean they'll litter the internet with horrible blogs and the ones that are slightly decent will always be down due to bandwidth restrictions?

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  8. I don't want my mom reading my blog... by MadAnthony02 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if you read their press releases and look at the clipart - what Yahoo seem to be doing here is starting at a much more personal scale. It's trying to get you, your mom and your real-life friends all reading and sharing blogs.

    I don't want my mom reading my blog. She'll be disturbed by all the porn-related posts.

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