We will be posting the best articles from the past in an attempt to spam, sorry I meant to bring some more traffic from our old users, long time gone, much more loved.
Today you can see one about Yahoo! Search and the other one about Memoirs of a Geisha and you can always access them through the newly created category oldies.
Have a good one.
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.
Full article here.
This story was posted for the first time here in January 24, 2006. Funny enough seems to be like a prediction ...
Author Arthur Golden interviewed Iwasaki while researching for his novel Memoirs of a Geisha. He promised to maintain absolute confidentiality but he thanked her by name in the book's acknowledgements. Iwasaki felt betrayed by that mention to her name and also by the manipulation of her personal life.
For Iwasaki's association with Golden's inaccurate portrayal of the geisha world, she has been shunned in Gion Kobu and treated with hostility.
As a result Iwasaki sued Golden for breach of contract and defamation of character. Golden chose to settle out of court in February 2003.
She wrote her true story in Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki.
This entry was posted back in January 30, 2006.