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Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:41:12 +0000

[...] 9 Wishes For a Better Yahoo [...]

By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:42:19 +0000

We’ll have to wait a few months and see if any actually do come true.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:52:39 +0000

Hey sonia, I think there are at least a few Yahoos that read this blog. At least I know their PR firms do.

By: sonia

sonia — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:48:37 +0000

i agree with #2 & 7 ..but you can tell/suggest these things to yahoo directly, may be that would effect/matter to them

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Video News at Gypsy Bandito — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:34:07 +0000

[...] Honestly, it’s about time. In fact, I’m surprised that Thomas McMahon didn’t think to include it to round out his 9 Wishes for a Better Yahoo. I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if it’s too little too late. Google has had a leg up on them for ages, and absorbed YouTube in one fell swoop. Yahoo, on the other hand, it trying to create their own store of video content, and that just might take time that they don’t have. [...]

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Linker Barn: Friday, August 3 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:06:53 +0000

[...] Nine wishes for a better Yahoo. [...]

By: Kent Schnepp

Kent Schnepp — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:38:34 +0000

Thomas -

I 100% agree with #7. We have not seen much improvement in Site Explorer lately. Yahoo needs to follow Google’s lead and provide tools similar to those found in Webmaster Central. Specifically I’d like to see some indexing stats.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:52:58 +0000

Well, Yahoo has been playing with too many things at one go. It has always been a online media company more than anything else. I should view Yahoo as the biggest Web 2.0 service provider ever born. They are like a media publishing company (in fact I think they are) who brings news near to us in a more personal way. If I am not wrong, they are almost fully human-managed online service when compared to Google which almost had everything automated by the computer.

The very first thing I would want to see is for
1) the yahoo main search page to be a real search page.
2) Remove all the services that are not search-related.
3) Have a better spam filtering for my yahoo email.

Anyway, looks like Yahoo’s niche is now more towards an online media company… Perhaps they could consider going into this area in a big way…