Yahoo is as much about search as Google is these days. I have a Gmail account, I use Google Calender and Docs, I watch YouTube, friends use Picasa and I sometimes use Blogspot. All Google products, all basically run as locations to put adverts on.
Blogspot/Blogger basically works the same way as LJ but without privacy or friends page. But it has a one-click "put adverts here" trick, and you get the ad revenue. Except of course if you use Google ads, which most do, they make money as well.
Yahoo does search, but also mail, Flickr, del.icio.us and a bunch of other products that you might not associate with them directly. And behind the scenes they have a bunch of business aimed products, software and services that make them cash that we don't see. One of those is the main competition for Microsoft's Exchange business email system, which might be interesting.
TBH, I think MS, Google and Yahoo are all mid-term doomed anyway, Google has the best legs, but Google was a small start up no one had really heard of ten years ago. The replacement companies are out there now, we may or may not already be using them...
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Date: 2008-Feb-04, Monday 12:44 (UTC)Blogspot/Blogger basically works the same way as LJ but without privacy or friends page. But it has a one-click "put adverts here" trick, and you get the ad revenue. Except of course if you use Google ads, which most do, they make money as well.
Yahoo does search, but also mail, Flickr, del.icio.us and a bunch of other products that you might not associate with them directly. And behind the scenes they have a bunch of business aimed products, software and services that make them cash that we don't see. One of those is the main competition for Microsoft's Exchange business email system, which might be interesting.
TBH, I think MS, Google and Yahoo are all mid-term doomed anyway, Google has the best legs, but Google was a small start up no one had really heard of ten years ago. The replacement companies are out there now, we may or may not already be using them...
I'll stop rambling now.