Re:Yahoo In More Turmoil: Is CEO Mayer Running Out Of Options?
by prostoalex on Friday April 18, 2014 @01:36AM
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Dethroned as top dog in some categories, but still strong in others.
Yahoo! News still dominates Google News, Yahoo! Finance still dominates Google Finance. Yahoo! Answers is pretty much unrivaled in Q&A category (I know, I know, the quality is not there, but all we care is traffic figures)
For many of the Google searches a site on *.yahoo.com network is still a top result.
Re:Yahoo In More Turmoil: Is CEO Mayer Running Out Of Options?
by theboss on Friday April 18, 2014 @02:08AM
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Even if traffic was the most important thing, one news site won't save you from the big bad wolf.
Those things are all being replaced by newer forms of news sites, QA sites, finance sites, etc.
Look at Google. They become top dog in their subject matter and then they start trying to compete in everything else. mobile OS, robotics, deep learning.
Look at MySpace and compare them to Facebook, who has gone out of their way to purchase up-and-coming Social networks, WhatsApp, Oculus.
My guess is that their problem isn't that they don't have something to offer it's that they didn't have the NEXT thing to offer. They have constantly been a step behind in their acquisitions instead of a step ahead.