On Yahoo!'s Acquisitions

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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Yahoo Meme Pulls Ahead of Google

[broward]

Interesting graph comparison of the major search engines.

It shows Yahoo pulling ahead of Google in 2005, and the
search engine battle itself is peaking in hype and media interest.

Yahoo's emergence into first place could be a function of their social software acquisitions.

http://www.realmeme.com:8080/roller/page/realmeme? entry=google_versus_yahoo

Yahoo tends to smash instead of improve

[get quad]

Now if someone could just get across to Yahoo that the acquisition and crushing of All Seeing Eye over not getting their way in a lawsuit with XFire is pissing off alot of gamers, perhaps people would gain a bit of insight as to why Yahoo is generally loathed only slightly less than AOL.