Comments on: Two wrongs do not make a Google http://bloggasm.com/two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-google Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: James http://bloggasm.com/two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-google/comment-page-1#comment-46094 James Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:04:44 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-google#comment-46094 Did you know that Yahoo is the top web site on Alexa? Google is currently second and third, with Google and YouTube. I also once had a hotmail account, actually I've had a tonne...but they keep shutting them down?! I do have a yahoo account that I use regularly, I think its got a better email interface than Gmail... But which is better is redundant, just getting as much traffic as it does is money for Jam... think advertising, people databases etc. If MS had Yahoo, then it would double it's search engine position... which would possibly be enough to start seriously competing with Google's position - though it would still be a big task. But they did it before in Netscape vs IE... I think the real gain would be in Internet traffic though. Not in any particular product space. Did you know that Yahoo is the top web site on Alexa? Google is currently second and third, with Google and YouTube.

I also once had a hotmail account, actually I’ve had a tonne…but they keep shutting them down?! I do have a yahoo account that I use regularly, I think its got a better email interface than Gmail…

But which is better is redundant, just getting as much traffic as it does is money for Jam… think advertising, people databases etc.

If MS had Yahoo, then it would double it’s search engine position… which would possibly be enough to start seriously competing with Google’s position – though it would still be a big task. But they did it before in Netscape vs IE…

I think the real gain would be in Internet traffic though. Not in any particular product space.

]]> By: Gabriel http://bloggasm.com/two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-google/comment-page-1#comment-45517 Gabriel Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:48:26 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-google#comment-45517 This offer doesn't come to me as a surprise. Everyone following the search engine war knew very well Microsoft and Yahoo were lagging behind Google significantly. I'm very much against a buyout from Microsoft. We know too well Microsoft is not a good competitor, so they monopolize in a text book fashion by simply buying the competition. We've seen it in the PC industry, it's currently going on in the video game industry, and they are trying to do it again in the search engine battle. This is really unhealthy. I welcome competition through innovation; not through meritless buyouts. This offer doesn’t come to me as a surprise. Everyone following the search engine war knew very well Microsoft and Yahoo were lagging behind Google significantly.

I’m very much against a buyout from Microsoft. We know too well Microsoft is not a good competitor, so they monopolize in a text book fashion by simply buying the competition. We’ve seen it in the PC industry, it’s currently going on in the video game industry, and they are trying to do it again in the search engine battle.

This is really unhealthy. I welcome competition through innovation; not through meritless buyouts.

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