Yahoo please do something more original

I was just read http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/02/18/search-alliance/ on Yahoo Search Blog. It is about Yahoo's search alliance with Microsoft.

I zoned out half way through the article. Yahoo, you had never won me as a customer atleast not to an extend to Microsoft or Google. The only products that I use from Yahoo these days are Delicious.com and Flickr. I use it because they are different and were original ideas.

On another note, since Yahoo bought these services, I don't see much innovation happening on these products. I am sure there are more things that can be done with pictures than just share it with friends and use Flickr as my backup tool.

Yahoo, you have a great story to tell, you have a wonderful history. Please bring your creative powers back and become an organisation which bring creative products that people would love to use. For the search results, I don't know a single person in my immediate group, who hasn't heard of Google or Bing so far and who is using Yahoo Search as their default search!

In year 2000, I thought Yahoo was awesome and so was it's search until a friend of mine introduced me to Google. Back in the days, two products that I was using from Yahoo were Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo email. It's been few months since I logged into Yahoo Messenger and I don't use Yahoo email at all these days.

In the days of Facebook and Twitter, people have higher expectations from web products and they won't let mediocre products win the game.

19 February 2010
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