Comments on: Video: Jerry Yang and Sue Decker Highlight Reel, Part Two http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080528/video-jerry-yang-and-sue-decker-highlight-video-part-two/ Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D6 Conference Recap | D6 Highlights | AllThingsD http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080528/video-jerry-yang-and-sue-decker-highlight-video-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-248 D6 Conference Recap | D6 Highlights | AllThingsD Sat, 02 May 2009 20:19:28 +0000 http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080528/video-jerry-yang-and-sue-decker-highlight-video-part-two/#comment-248 [...] Session post  |  Photos  |  Videos: One and Two [...] [...] Session post  |  Photos  |  Videos: One and Two [...]

]]> By: Mac Beach http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080528/video-jerry-yang-and-sue-decker-highlight-video-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Mac Beach Thu, 29 May 2008 17:05:00 +0000 http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080528/video-jerry-yang-and-sue-decker-highlight-video-part-two/#comment-30 Decker repeats the often used canard that Yahoo is a content company rather than a search company. Maybe so. But Google is hardly JUST a search company either. I use Google for mail, photos, document storage, and several other non-search activities, and in many cases I once used Yahoo for those same things. I switched because I tried both, and Google was better. Yahoo offers mediocre services, and then asks users to pay for something marginally better. Yahoo's only option at this point is to start offering much better services and hope that Google starts charging for similar services. I don't think either thing is likely to happen. Decker repeats the often used canard that Yahoo is a content company rather than a search company.

Maybe so. But Google is hardly JUST a search company either. I use Google for mail, photos, document storage, and several other non-search activities, and in many cases I once used Yahoo for those same things. I switched because I tried both, and Google was better.

Yahoo offers mediocre services, and then asks users to pay for something marginally better.

Yahoo’s only option at this point is to start offering much better services and hope that Google starts charging for similar services.

I don’t think either thing is likely to happen.

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