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On Yahoo!'s Acquisitions

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the buying-up-the-web dept.

Barry Norton writes "The Guardian has quite an insightful article about recent Yahoo acquisitions Delicious and Flickr. They quote Joshua Schachter, Delicious' creator: 'We're excited to be working with the Yahoo search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin, Flickr!' And why Yahoo's interest? The article opines: 'It takes a lot of the hard work out of searching the web. The very clever thing about social software is that it puts the burden on to the user, not the provider.'"

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  1. A couple of obvious misspellings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Delicious is spelled "del.icio.us" and Flickr is spelled "Flïck..krr" I hope you're more careful in future.

  2. This! by OSS_ilation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is! exciting! news!

  3. Re:Yahoo and Google by Scooter's_dad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can someone explain this to me, and in a way that doesn't involve singular instances... a broad spectrum view of why so many people are so keen on Google and so unkeen on Yahoo...

    When I go to www.google.com I see a clean, empty page with a few lines of text and an input box. When I just visited www.yahoo.com, I saw Donald Trump's face. 'Nuff said.

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  4. Re:Yahoogle by StikyPad · · Score: 2, Funny

    You keep using that word, innovative. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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