Signs of a rebound ? I sure hope so

[mekin]

A flurry of reports

Yahoo: Is Project Panama Taking Dollars from Google?
Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System
Panama Puts Yahoo Back in the Race
Yahoo ‘Panama’ Siezes Back Share From Google

I personally feel its probably too early to read too much into these reports, especially some of their titles are  very sensational.
A little surprising

Comments

[azooey]

Interesting post. Would love to see Yahoo make a serious comeback and reinstate itself as the internet darling it used to be when I was still a fresh engineer. In other thoughts, my opinion may not matter much but Yahoo should not measure itself against the Google mammoth. It will have to find its own differentiation and value proposition, although Google perhaps loves Yahoo as a competitor. But thats precisely the trap it should not fall into.

[mekin]

I completely agree with the part :
It will have to find its own differentiation and value proposition,

Yahoo hasnt focussed enough on its true assets - users & their communities & excellent engineering talent & infrastructure that successfully runs 150+ applications across geographies.
Social search could have revolutionised search - Yahoo Answers success shows a glimpse of what community can do.
Its become as good & sometimes more useful than wikipidea.
Myweb based search, if improved, has enough potential to beat most good search algos in becoming relevant to users.
By focussing on search it lost out opportunities in social networking & other nascent spaces, Given the yahoo infra & the reliability & scalability that comes with it - Yahoo should be trying ten things a year.
Google isnt known for its engineering successes outside of search... Its actually had a lot of difficulty in moving products from beta(or their labs) to general audience

But I dont completely agree with Yahoo should not measure itself against the Google mammoth

[anushsh]

People have been talking about Natural Language Processing and other techniques as the next search technology but it still has a long way to go. Even for NLP based search engines, they will need to build large data for crawling. The infrastructure for Social Search is already there and Yahoo! has an edge here. Recently at the Yahoo! Big Thinker Series in bangalore, DB whiz Raghu Ramakrishnan was emphasizing the same thing.

[code_martial]

IMO NLP is still a waste of money and no profit making corporate should bet on it. It's one of those exotic research problems that seem to be very exciting to work on but usually you find that there are other much simpler ways of reaching the end goal.

[rileen]

The funny thing is, you wouldn't call someone a yahoo unless you wanted to insult them :-)

[mekin]

Yes :)
Though most Yahoo's I know dont consider it an insult to be ...
A crude or brutish person.

The brand has overcome that :)

[rileen]

Nice to see the amount of affection you retain :-)

[code_martial]

Yahoos.

Kak takie naiti?

[anonymous]

http://www.hugechoiceof.com/

nice

[anonymous]

http://www.anzwers.net/hot/nicesite/