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This will be good news for Yahoo, because Yahoo has the problem of being spread across all of the most competitive fields on the net - search, portal, email, vi
by markessien 18y ago
This will be good news for Yahoo, because Yahoo has the problem of being spread across all of the most competitive fields on the net - search, portal, email, video, sports. Taking away one part of this, frees yahoo up to focus on evolving the web instead of trying to battle the giants.
Microsoft is huge - it has the resources to tackle google on search. Let the two titans fight it out, and let yahoo go back to being startup-like, work on their developer tools, create an API for the web, build their email product, expand in the 3rd world and so on.
Losing search is not only profitable, it will cause an increased focus on creating money-making and competitive products out of the rest of Yahoos properties.
Assuming the new CEO is any good.
- greyman 18y ago> Microsoft is huge - it has the resources to tackle google on search. What exactly do you mean by "tackle"? Microsoft has enough software engineers, but they don't have enough time and search data to catch up. Google has enormous log files from user's search behaviour and experience battling search spammers. And this is what Microsoft is lacking and cannot buy.