Why is yahoo biting off google?

Google answers. Now Yahoo answers.


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If yahoo really want to be the next Google they should get rid of annoying animated colorful picture ads. They're the main reason why so many people, including me, have switched to Google. Text ads suffice.

Why is yahoo biting off google?
Its all about competition and market share which is the exact same reason Microsoft is wiggling into the market.





Yahoo and Google are direct competitors and with more and more money going towards online development, (search and search advertising will become a 12 billion dollar industry by 2010 alone) they cannot afford to ignore what is in front of them.





Such large markets translate to 1% equaling millions of dollars depending on the type of market share, thats too big to give up. If your competitor comes out with a useful product, you have no choice but to follow suit for fear of losing market share.





Google hasn't really been inventing so much as they have been innovating and bettering what is already in place. Expect to see these two companies and Microsoft "bite" off each other for some time.
Reply:Just for SOME sort of balance here, Yahoo Mail has been around for many years - last year GOOGLE launched their OWN GMail.





Yahoo Messenger is one of the oldest IM programs around - last year Google came up with (the most amazingly pathetic, in my view) GoogleTalk.





I don't think there's any question of Yahoo wanting to be the next Google - I feel the opposite is truer.





Sure Google WAS the fastest riser for some time, but still has a long way to go to be thought of as anything much more than a superb search engine.

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