The UnGoogle Turns 10

[geekerati]

This is an eXtremely interesting article that compares the two giants Google and Yahoo. It gives some insight as to where both companies are headed.

We live in the Age of Google. For the past two years, Google has been the yardstick by which business and technology success is measured, not to mention the answer to a lot of prayers. Google marked the first sign of a tech resurgence, served up the first ice-melting IPO of the postbust era, and became the first tech company to rewrite the dictionary since Xerox. For all this and no doubt more, the Mountain View, California, search engine started in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page deserves its moment in the sun.

Still, the adulation must rankle the folks at a certain company just down the road in Silicon Valley - another search engine founded by two precocious Stanford grads with a cute name, colorful logo, and simple homepage. The indignity is all the greater when you consider Yahoo!'s numbers: 165 million registered users, 345 million unique visitors a month, $49 billion market cap, and a 62 per*cent increase in revenue last quarter, bringing 2004 total revenue to $3.6 billion. Yahoo! makes more money and has more patents, services, and users than Google; it even has its own yodel. Given its recent blowout financial results and the expected continued explosion of online advertising, Yahoo! may very well be the most valuable business on the Web. And yet, as Jerry Yang and David Filo's startup celebrates its 10th anniversary March 2, Yahoo! is the biggest consumer Internet company you may almost never think about.

Of course, back in 2000, Yahoo! was riding high, and upstart Google was hoping to be the next Yahoo! But then came the dotcom implosion, with Yahoo! firing hundreds of employees and seeing its stock price drop from $119 to $4. Now, even though Yahoo!'s back, it seems consigned to Google's shadow. The top four business magazines, according to Lexis-Nexis, wrote almost 40 percent more articles about Google last year. Of the stories that mentioned both companies, 95 percent were focused on Google

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[iJeff]

hmm..
yes Google rose above all, now it's time to see how Yahoo! will do in the future, and how MSN Search will affect it all.

[cvrk3]

i bet on google to be the frone runner!!