Yahoo! Yields Search Dominance to Google

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 24, 2006 @06:24AM from the bowing-out dept.

Unsichtbarer_Mensch wrote to mention a Seattle PI story in which Yahoo! CFO Susan Decker states that they're not aiming to be the No. 1 Search engine. From the article: "Yahoo!'s comments underline the difficulties any Internet company faces in trying to challenge Google's dominance of the Web search industry. Google has at least double the market share of Yahoo! and Microsoft Corp. in Internet search, the largest and most profitable segment of online advertising. 'In some countries, it's already game over in search, with Google the clear victor,' said RBC Capital Markets analyst Jordan Rohan in New York. 'Google's product development pipeline runs at such a fast rate that it's very difficult for any company, Microsoft or Yahoo! to catch up.'"

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Oh No! by Burning1 · 2006-01-24 06:38 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh no! The bastard monopolists at Google are crushing the freedom-loving people at Yahoo and Microsoft!

I'm trying to figure out what happened. It seems to me that many slashdotters have a fundimental urge to root for the underdog. Slashdot seems to fear any company that becomes successfull. Shouldn't we all be proud that an ethical company that relies on Open Source Software has become a dominant player in the search industry?

If someone knows an honest example of google violationg (our) trust, I'd be interested in hearing about it.