Yahoo's Geek Statue

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 6, 2005 @02:00AM from the worth-a-read dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "Yahoo put up a life-size alpha geek statue in honor of the Yahoo Mail team, which they think beat the Gmail team. The statue's plaque says it's presented "in recognition of tremendous intellectual efforts put forth in order to defeat Gmail", and: "Not since the code breakers in Britain's Bletchley Park deciphered Germany's Enigma code during World War II has so much brainpower been focused on kicking an enemy's ass." Flickr has a photo." It's a nice little article on the difference between two of the net's superpowers.

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Re:Here, have a trophy. by mallumax · 2005-11-06 02:13 · Score: 5, Informative

They are claiming that Yahoo Mail is better than GMail.Check out this sticker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/60225255/in/ photostream/ It says

Thanks to the new YAHOO! MAIL we can all give the competition something to kiss.
The New Yahoo! Mail is superior to GMail
Wall Street Journal

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sigh.. by Janek+Kozicki · 2005-11-06 02:13 · Score: 5, Informative

no one ever remembers that it were polish scientists who cracked enigma...

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