Comments on: Extend or Die, Yahoo! http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:52:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Ned Milburn http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1052 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:29:17 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1052 I use MyYahoo for my homepage (one English, one Japanese). Google has nothing that compares. I get my news, weather, email updates, entertainment (comic strips of my choice), local movie listings, etcetera etcetera that google doesn't offer. The good thing about google is storage space and large email attachments. Plus google apps can be convenient, but who needs it when you have OpenOffice and PortableApps that you can use on other peoples' Windows machines. If you are on any linux machine, you can bet that OpenOffice will be installed. I absolutely HATE google's online email interface. Multiple replies to my emails show as one email. I can't easily tell if I have replied to people or not. Ultimately, a very poor interface. (Aside: Try out GMX mail's new beta interface. Sweet! You can fetch all your other email account mail in one spot, but it is really organized! A few wrinkles to iron out - it IS BETA after all - but all in all an excellent interface!!) I also used Yahoo's interface (Yahoo!Go) on WindowsMobile (until I returned the WinMobile phone because WinMobile sucks). The Yahoo!Go interface was really slick and easy to use, with nice features including integrated access to your own yahoo mail and calendar, plus an integrated maps function. Sweet! Again, Google can't compare. Also, most of you likely don't know that Yahoo!Japan is Japan's biggest search engine. QUOTE: Yahoo Japan controls 64% of the market and Google controls 21% of the Japanese search engine market. (from webcreate.ga-pro.com 1/23/08) Also, have you tried yahoo maps recently? Very sweet interface!! Go Yahoo, Go!!! I use MyYahoo for my homepage (one English, one Japanese). Google has nothing that compares. I get my news, weather, email updates, entertainment (comic strips of my choice), local movie listings, etcetera etcetera that google doesn’t offer.

The good thing about google is storage space and large email attachments. Plus google apps can be convenient, but who needs it when you have OpenOffice and PortableApps that you can use on other peoples’ Windows machines. If you are on any linux machine, you can bet that OpenOffice will be installed. I absolutely HATE google’s online email interface. Multiple replies to my emails show as one email. I can’t easily tell if I have replied to people or not. Ultimately, a very poor interface. (Aside: Try out GMX mail’s new beta interface. Sweet! You can fetch all your other email account mail in one spot, but it is really organized! A few wrinkles to iron out - it IS BETA after all - but all in all an excellent interface!!)

I also used Yahoo’s interface (Yahoo!Go) on WindowsMobile (until I returned the WinMobile phone because WinMobile sucks). The Yahoo!Go interface was really slick and easy to use, with nice features including integrated access to your own yahoo mail and calendar, plus an integrated maps function. Sweet! Again, Google can’t compare.

Also, most of you likely don’t know that Yahoo!Japan is Japan’s biggest search engine.

QUOTE: Yahoo Japan controls 64% of the market and Google controls 21% of the Japanese search engine market. (from webcreate.ga-pro.com 1/23/08)

Also, have you tried yahoo maps recently? Very sweet interface!!

Go Yahoo, Go!!!

]]> by: madscientist http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1025 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:23:24 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1025 Yahoo sucks. Primary reasoning is that there are obnoxious ads and other unwanted items all over even just the "basic" engine screen. Google is clean, doesn't distract away from what you are trying to do. If I ever decide that things jumping around and ads playing or even just sitting there all over the place is a better way to go, I'll change my homepage to Yahoo. Sure, its a powerful engine, and they offer a few nice tools, but who cares? I will go as far as to mention that I explicitly and immediately boycott *any* web page that tries to push ads at me, regardless of the content I'm looking for. There's always somebody else who has a 'clean version' of the same page where I dont have to sit and look at a bunch of crap I dont care about. I realize that owning/leasing/renting/operating web sites and the associated hardware is not cheap (I should own stock in my power company for the cost of operating my machines alone!), and has to be payed for by something, but Google does it eloquently, not obnoxiously, and it obviously works very well for them. Blah blah blah, I know... Yahoo sucks. Primary reasoning is that there are obnoxious ads and other unwanted items all over even just the “basic” engine screen. Google is clean, doesn’t distract away from what you are trying to do. If I ever decide that things jumping around and ads playing or even just sitting there all over the place is a better way to go, I’ll change my homepage to Yahoo. Sure, its a powerful engine, and they offer a few nice tools, but who cares?

I will go as far as to mention that I explicitly and immediately boycott *any* web page that tries to push ads at me, regardless of the content I’m looking for. There’s always somebody else who has a ‘clean version’ of the same page where I dont have to sit and look at a bunch of crap I dont care about.

I realize that owning/leasing/renting/operating web sites and the associated hardware is not cheap (I should own stock in my power company for the cost of operating my machines alone!), and has to be payed for by something, but Google does it eloquently, not obnoxiously, and it obviously works very well for them.

Blah blah blah, I know…

]]> by: Don Juan http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1021 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:07:36 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1021 The new Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo are awesome The new Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo are awesome

]]> by: subrahmanyam pvb http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1019 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:20:13 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1019 the latest products from Yahoo! are really nice like their mail. i can now send sms's from the browser itself which is simply fantastic. and finance.yahoo.com is now my home page which is second to none in convenience and functionality. come on guys........ Yahoo! is just dozing in its past victories and is set to wake up with a bang. Opened up the search API's. the "Yahoo User Interface" is simply awesome. They are even testing Google ads in their search results.. I really foresee Yahoo! once again becoming the internet giant which i know it as in mid 90's. wake up Yahoo! and show your worth :-) the latest products from Yahoo! are really nice like their mail. i can now send sms’s from the browser itself which is simply fantastic. and finance.yahoo.com is now my home page which is second to none in convenience and functionality. come on guys…….. Yahoo! is just dozing in its past victories and is set to wake up with a bang. Opened up the search API’s. the “Yahoo User Interface” is simply awesome. They are even testing Google ads in their search results.. I really foresee Yahoo! once again becoming the internet giant which i know it as in mid 90’s. wake up Yahoo! and show your worth :-)

]]> by: privacy registrations suck http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1018 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:58:31 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1018 For all the comments, you didn't think you would get off that easy talking about Yahoo. Gmail does have a couple features that Yahoo doesn't, but the new Yahoo mail, which you probably haven't tried, has full drag and drop support, full integration with YMessegner, which you know you use over whatever messenger Google has, and the new spam filter leaves me with zero spam. So before you bash, try the latest version of a product. And FYI, if you search for something on Yahoo or Google, it typically returns similar results. Search engines aren't rocket science.... For all the comments, you didn’t think you would get off that easy talking about Yahoo. Gmail does have a couple features that Yahoo doesn’t, but the new Yahoo mail, which you probably haven’t tried, has full drag and drop support, full integration with YMessegner, which you know you use over whatever messenger Google has, and the new spam filter leaves me with zero spam. So before you bash, try the latest version of a product. And FYI, if you search for something on Yahoo or Google, it typically returns similar results. Search engines aren’t rocket science….

]]> by: Bhavin Modi http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1017 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:17:53 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1017 Looks like you are completely unaware of tools that yahoo provides for developers. Visit http://developer.yahoo.com/ and also http://pipes.yahoo.com Looks like you are completely unaware of tools that yahoo provides for developers. Visit http://developer.yahoo.com/ and also http://pipes.yahoo.com

]]> by: joypad http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1012 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:34:47 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1012 So mean! Why would you add the note that Yahoo bought Flickr, without mentioning that Google bought YouTube, Blogger or Picasa?! Is it to point out that the only good thing that Yahoo offers today is an acquisition? So mean! Why would you add the note that Yahoo bought Flickr, without mentioning that Google bought YouTube, Blogger or Picasa?!
Is it to point out that the only good thing that Yahoo offers today is an acquisition?

]]> by: Bryan Richard http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1011 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:08:05 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1011 Yeah, it would also provide Microsoft with a great case study of migrating tens of thoursands of FreeBSD servers to Windows and how great PHP will run in a .NET environment. ;-) Yeah, it would also provide Microsoft with a great case study of migrating tens of thoursands of FreeBSD servers to Windows and how great PHP will run in a .NET environment. ;-)

]]> by: chuckgaff http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:20:42 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1008 I think that if Microsoft is able to complete the buy-out of Yahoo that this could be a move that helps both Microsoft and Yahoo in the long run. Microsoft needs to extend its service offerings in a greater way into the on-line world and Yahoo needs the "mojo". Yahoo has some good web-hosting services and other areas but is missing some of the pieces that Microsoft can add, and that has the money to do so. This is an excellent article comparing Google and Yahoo. I think that if Microsoft is able to complete the buy-out of Yahoo that this could be a move that helps both Microsoft and Yahoo in the long run. Microsoft needs to extend its service offerings in a greater way into the on-line world and Yahoo needs the “mojo”. Yahoo has some good web-hosting services and other areas but is missing some of the pieces that Microsoft can add, and that has the money to do so.

This is an excellent article comparing Google and Yahoo.

]]> by: borgward http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1003 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:30:35 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5757/#comment-1003 Yahoo mail is awful. Too much spam. Poor spam controls. I hardly ever use Yahoo for anything as I get way too many ads that gobble up bandwidth, along with popups, etc. Yahoo mail is awful. Too much spam. Poor spam controls. I hardly ever use Yahoo for anything as I get way too many ads that gobble up bandwidth, along with popups, etc.

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