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In what POSSIBLE WAY does this "benefit" everyone? There are too few big competitors in search already. Now there's even less. I don't give a damn if Yahoo's cu
by geuis 17y ago
In what POSSIBLE WAY does this "benefit" everyone? There are too few big competitors in search already. Now there's even less. I don't give a damn if Yahoo's current CEO says "we're not a search company" because they damn well were.
I actually don't understand why this post was written, why it was submitted to HN, nor how it gets to the top of the front page with 2 votes.
- likpok 17y agoIIRC, search is expensive. It takes a lot of capital to get the indices and user-data which makes you competitive. Yahoo wanted to make money off of their (numerous) other properties as opposed to running down the rabbit hole of search.
- urlwolf 17y agoAlso, this means one less search API available. Yahoo BOSS with unlimited searches was a godsent, but first the capped it, and now MS will eventually make it disappear. It may not be good news, but it's news and something people here should know. How it gets to the top of the front page with 2 votes... no idea. Slow day?
- jeroen 17y agoNew ranking algoritm. See pg's comments in the experiment- thread.
- endtime 17y ago>In what POSSIBLE WAY does this "benefit" everyone? There are too few big competitors in search already. I don't understand this space well enough to have a meaningful opinion, but I think some people feel that the only way Google will have any competition is if Microsoft and Yahoo team up. If that's true, I guess it could be a good thing.