Comments on: Top 10 Mistakes of Yahoo

By: yamaha r6

yamaha r6 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:19:20 +0000

yamaha r6…

[...]Top 10 Mistakes of Yahoo[...]…

By: Imraan

Imraan — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:51:07 +0000

yahoo messenger was their biggest advantage as it was so popular but due to negligence, people started drifting away as it became a nuisance for users.

By: Kathaperumal

Kathaperumal — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:50:56 +0000

Your comment on Samel is very daring. Ok and how is the performance of Rasmus (the founder of PHP) with Yahoo? Please comment on this

By: tina

tina — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:08:15 +0000

There is need to correct your article in point no 3 $ 6..

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:34:48 +0000

@maxwell As i commented on Top 10 mistakes of Google, similarly we discussed about the few loopholes of Yahoo which is not aimed to show them down.
We know that Yahoo have few best designs and their best contributions in YUI library , moreover i still prefer to go for Flick rather than Picasa but the points in listed here are on “few mistakes” out of several Yahoo owned sites and services.

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:48:31 +0000

I said before in a few of my blog posts that I lost my “Internet virginity” to Yahoo’s directory back around 1993/1994. It was sooo AMAZING. I met cool peeps on the Net via CyberFriends thanks to Yahoo’s directory.
Our Sun workstations in the CompSci lab had Netscape running and I’d spend hours cruising this new realm we now call cyber space. For that, I will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart for Yahoo. But their Search started to return crappy results and then this clean-shaven search engine, Google, came out of no where around 1994/95 and I was like, “Wow!!”
I even wrote them back then on my Cyrix 6X86 powered desktop and told them “how cool” their search engine was. Then they replied to my email, asked for my mailing address (on campus at Western Univwersity, London Ontario Canada) and sent me some Google stickers for my desktop and a mouse pad too.

I’ve always felt that Yahoo’s page designers were more creative than Google’s. They did have the edge with the Yahoo Shops (eCommerce) after buying out ViaWeb. Also, I was a big IM user, but it got so spammy and I’d always get all of these WHORES wanting to “connect” with me. They could still overhaul this and fix up the security. But I believe the brand that is Yahoo is still very much viable.
Personally, I’d love to seem them & Google merge. They’re both excellent web companies and the synergies (no evil, Stanford founders, etc.) would be INCREDIBLE.
.-= Maxwell´s last blog ..10 Great Open Source Windows apps =-.

By: techprone

techprone — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:12:16 +0000

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By: Dj

Dj — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:10:15 +0000

Top 10 Mistakes of Yahoo http://bit.ly/7nIP1o #yahoo

By: Google Fan Blog

Google Fan Blog — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:27:02 +0000

It is really bad that Yahoo Messenger has been a medium for viruses to spread out. I remember one time I ended up almost mad at someone who I thought was spreading the virus to me. But obviously he was innocent and a victim too. I hope that Yahoo has learned a lot from these mistakes and able to catch up with the competition. .-= Google Fan Blog´s last blog ..Share Links Easier with Google URL Shortener =-.

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:21:09 +0000

Every company wants to improve their products but the question is how they improve?
Yahoo is trying harder to enhance their services but they are not so effective.
for example:Yahoo is trying to work on their UI
http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/new-yahoo-home-page-caught-in-the-wild/

By: Olly

Olly — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:59:19 +0000

I think Yahoo was always going to have problems as rivals arrived to challenge their inflexibility and limited vision, and end users became more knowledgeable. Yahoo’s problems are years old. They did not work on their search engine technology when they had fewer rivals. They had a tendency to be greedy – for marketing purposes, everything connected with Yahoo tended to be more cumbersome, require more sign-up, be more bloated. Since their early days they have not introduced a single innovation, and Web 2.0 completely surprised them.
Examples: many people refuse to visit their homepage because it’s such a mess – compare with google, or even igoogle; they are even now, wasting opportunities in an area where they have no direct rivals – Yahoo Groups. Due to their short-sightedness, they don’t allow users to participate fully in the groups unless they sign up for Yahoo mail. Or also: Why don’t they go multi-protocol with Yahoo messenger, so that it has a chance of being used by more than ten-year olds?
Their corporate philosophy is terrible. The days for those exclusive deals have gone, and if they can’t realise that, then the future is bleak for them. They will be the next Lycos if they are not very careful. I think missing the google train was historic, but missing Microsoft might be fatal.

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:49:42 +0000

Thanks Kevin,
Point no 8 is updated now.
(“The Yahoo! Mash Beta service has shut down.”)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:37:33 +0000

Probably you need to correct “They did not venture into social networking.” – They did (Yahoo! Mash), but did not successful in that. http://mash.yahoo.com/ & http://i-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/09/mash-new-social-networking-service-from.html

By: Ankur Banerjee

Ankur Banerjee — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:42:28 +0000

Thanks

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Thanks ankur
From meeting with you and your works i must need to appraise your level of knowledge and intense web skills.