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What would Yahoo have to do for you for it to get your business? http://everything.yahoo.com/ http://everything.yahoo.com/ Take a look at all the services yah
by parfe 15y ago
What would Yahoo have to do for you for it to get your business?
http://everything.yahoo.com/ http://everything.yahoo.com/
Take a look at all the services yahoo offers.
Has anyone ever sent you a "Yahoo Video" link? I didn't even know it existed until just now. And the prominent video on the main page is "Jazz for Cows" which I can't get a direct link for to paste here. Yahoo only offers me the option to embed it. It's fun enough I want to send it to my friend who plays in a local orchestra, but Yahoo is not concerned with the organic spread of links. http://video.yahoo.com/ http://video.yahoo.com/
It isn't just youtube Yahoo competes poorly with. Craigslist, Gmail, ESPN, every news site on the internet.
Just take a look at their "security" offering http://security.yahoo.com/ http://security.yahoo.com/
Paragraphs of copywriting but no product to download or install. Click "Protect your PC" it's just more words. Lots of words. Someone at Yahoo took the time to create this page for what purpose? There is no direction whatsoever.
Their primary search function is powered by Bing now too. About the only near-market leader Yahoo controls is Flickr and that's only because pros like it over Facebook.
Yahoo! became the bitbucket to store second rate implementations of every idea the internet has ever had, and they aren't cutting the cruft loose, or differentiating on the products that are quality.
In fact, take a look at their mobile offering.
http://m.yahoo.com/w/sports/ncaaf/teams/ncaaf.i-a.2?.ts=1316199330&.intl=us&.lang=en http://m.yahoo.com/w/sports/ncaaf/teams/ncaaf.i-a.2?.ts=1316...
That's the Big East Team list for College Football. It's not standings. It doesn't show records. Some project manager at Yahoo accessed the mobile sports site and either didn't care enough to say "Why can't I see the standings?" or didn't know enough about sports to care about standings. Why does Yahoo! have someone like that in charge of the mobile sports division (If they even have someone in a leadership position anywhere close to such a segment). Someone thought displaying 8 teams in alphabetical order was good usability.
- parfe 15y agoI'm thinking about Yahoo and getting angry. Why can't I get a Yahoo! Games platform app on my Android phone? They have an online community full of Chess, Go, and Scrabble players which means even the first person to pay $15 for the Yahoo! Games app has people to play with. Full integration between the web and phone means I can always find someone to play chess against. But no, they decided to spend time offering up Yahoo! Weather for free. Some exec must have sent out an internal memo mandating that no Project Manager develop anything that will make money.
- brador 15y agoI love the colors on Yahoo video! I too had never heard of their video offering. I think they have some good products, they have eyeballs, it's just a very poorly run company lacking direction. I'd take that CEO position in a flash and I think I could turn it round.
- 0x12 15y agoWhat makes you think you are qualified?
- simonbrown 15y ago> Yahoo only offers me the option to embed it. Clicking the up arrow icon provides me a URL along with an embed link. Or you could just copy it from your browser's URL bar.
- parfe 15y agoIt appears that the promoted/lead video displayed at http://video.yahoo.com http://video.yahoo.com does NOT have a link field in the up arrow menu. Once you find a video's specific page the same video has a link available. At least on ubuntu with flash 11,0,1,129 installed.
- drgath 15y ago> About the only near-market leader Yahoo controls is Flickr #1 US properties - Y! News - Y! Sports - Y! Finance - OMG - Y! Mail - Homepage (for portals) And probably some others I don't know of.