Yahoo! giving up on search
Many websites today are reporting some supposed declarations from Susan Decker, CFO @ Yahoo!, where she claims that Yahoo! does not aim to be no.1 in search. Her declarations look like follows: "We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google," Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share.".
I am sad, really sad when I read this. Competition is good and even more in such a competitive field such as internet search, so Yahoo! should not give up and should keep innovating with stuff like My Web, Music Search and Yahoo! Answers. We, the users, want the best and if the best is Google now then fine but we want more and that extra bit can only come if there is a fierce competition in every single field of the internet and I can not see a better competitor to Google than Yahoo!. So go Yahoo! go!. If at the end of the day Google keeps better, it will be because Yahoo! (and the others) kept pushing the strings beyond their limits.
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This story was posted for the first time here in January 24, 2006. Funny enough seems to be like a prediction ...