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Google vs. Yahoo: On a Collision Course

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-work-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's pretty clear from this analysis as to which company is ahead of the game. Take this simple comparison: at Google, engineers are expected to spend one day a week on a project of personal interest. This has resulted in new offerings like Google News and social networking site Orkut. At Yahoo, there are posters promoting the "Idea Factory", where employees are invited to well, submit ideas (read boring)."

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  1. Yahoo search better than google by GGardner · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google may seem "cooler" than yahoo, but yahoo's search just works better for me than google's. The last couple of times google couldn't find something for me, it was on the first page of search results in yahoo's search. I think that maybe google, in branching out, has lost its focus on search.

    1. Re:Yahoo search better than google by Peter_Pork · · Score: 1, Troll

      Oh, yes, and everytime I don't find something in yahoo, I used MSN search. It just works better.

      Show me the query, and I'll believe you. Otherwise, I trust Google, the search engine that got us through the dark days of the web (remember the crap Altavista produced?). The Internet as a whole is far more useful thanks to Google. Glad to hear that Yahoo learned a lesson or two though. Others didn't.

  2. Yawn by Fear+the+Clam · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yahoo hasn't done jack since the mid-90s. The only reason they exist is because of people too stupid to operate a search engine. Yahoo exists in a part of the Internet where people care an awful lot about selecting their avatars and using the correct smiley.

    Mind you, Microsoft and AOL seems to do okay with the dumbshit client base as well, so maybe it's a sound business plan.

  3. *cough* dot-com implosion *cough* by Urusai · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some day people will realize AGAIN that Internet ads do not bring in business, they only create an inflating spiral of money between dot-coms advertising each other.

    If Google made ad money, that's because they were in essence taking candy from other businesses that are blowing their VC on advertising instead of sustainable revenue models. Not that I'm complaining--the great VC rape of the 90s was a superb way of transferring money from the stupid rich to the working class. It was great for the economy. This is why high taxes on the rich are a good idea for everyone, the money works its way to people who actually spend it.