Yahoo is already so far in the hole as it is, I don't see why it still exists. Obviously the search engine part is an added bonus, but it is quite obvious Google is the winner in the search engine category. I mean, come on, who doesn't like Google? Soon enough it's going to be making TVs, music players, and computers. It sounds a little ridiculous, but it could make most of the products we use every day. It's not Yahoo's fault or anything, Google is just REALLY dominant. I don't think anything will change that as of now. The G1 is something that convinced me Google is able to do anything. The only thing Google needs is its own phone company or service. Discuss what you think


P.S. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, please move this to Google if appropriate.

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is that Yahoo! is still turning a profit. From some of the posts it would seem that Yahoo! is in the red and will go out of business any day now but the reality is that Yahoo! has decent profits and dividends on their stock. The only reason that this is an issue is because Yahoo! is a publically traded company and investors want outrageous returns all of the time. If Yahoo! was still private this would never be an issues. With that said, I’m not sure how long Yahoo! will remain a separate entity. Investor pressures may move the Yahoo! board to sell the company.

Personally I have made quite a hobby of following Yahoo! and in particular Yahoo! Messenger. I have thought for some time now that my hobby may be at an end because if Yahoo! gets sold then Messenger will surely be the loser in all of it. I have also noticed that Messenger is starting to lose market share. I feel that this is due to added restrictions on Yahoo! chat and the removal of user generated rooms. Chat and Messenger may seem like separate products but the only reason a lot of people had Messenger was because of the chat rooms which are now basically useless.

Yahoo used to be THE search engine probably back when I was in early high school (around the year 2000) before google came along and bumped them off.
It's still doing pretty well although perhaps not as well as google. In recent years popularity of google and the brand name fame has surpassed yahoo.
If you look at share prices (excluding the recent plunge) yahoo shares have sort of remained stable whilst google has skyrocketed.
They also run different services (except the search engine of course). Google nowadays seem very consumer tool based providing a range of products (gmail, their new google docs, google chrome, their new phone OS etc) whilst yahoo is very much a paid services provider.

In terms of revenue at the moment Google is definitely winning but obviously Yahoo is not in the RED. THey're not doing as well but they are still making a decent profit. I don't think they can outstrip google anymore but they can still maintain their share of the market if they try hard enough.

There is absolutely no reason to flame either Google or Yahoo! because they are 2 completely great non-evil search engines that need some serious competition, besides the weak Ask or Cuil (Live Search doesn't count, next please!).

Google needs competition, as every serious firm needs one. Without competition they could make a monopoly (which by default aren't good at all. see Microsoft). I still use Y! Mail regularly and I used it as my main mail 3 to 2 years ago (though GMail is the default one now) and my father still plays the Y! Games and has set up Yahoo.com as his home-page (even though he understands English very little).

I don't hate Yahoo even a bit!