Comments on: Yahoo! — “Search Is History”. Translation? “We Should Have Bought Facebook When We Had The Chance”

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:52:10 +0000

^ above
Human-generated spam?

By: Daniel Rueda

Daniel Rueda — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:58:07 +0000

Old News. Future of Search Pioneer Mylocator.com has been declaring that search is dead for months now. He tries to tell all the SEO people and they refuse to listen. Talk about living in a box. Social Networked Vertical Results are the future(word of mouth combined with premium vertical channels). The founder of MyLocator.com was able to go out capture a cluster of premium strategic vertical properties that are keyphrase, toplevel and vertical. He is the pioneer of Vertical Locator Cluster Technology. Today he controls a porfolio of over 1100+ vertical locator properties. Creating a whole new genre of location he calls “Vertical Locator Cluster Technology.” Claims that what we need are LocatorEngines. These early visionaires have to potential to for ever dominate this arena. I will say it for him “Search is Dead; Strategic, Social networked vertical results are Everything. Search Solved. Game Over.

MyLocator.com
Think Outside the Box

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:08:31 +0000

A senior person at Yahoo! said in an interview that they weren’t interested in beating Google at search, oh about…two years ago. She was reprimanded for it then, but it was just as obvious then as it is now: search belongs to Google, so find something else to be good at. Back then it seemed like Yahoo! would own Web 2.0 with their acquisitions of Delicious and Flickr. Since then, not so much.

I don’t see how Yahoo! will be going up against Facebook, even if they do launch a social network. Facebook has their audience and it continues to grow. Unless Yahoo! can come up with something revolutionary, and history shows that they’re only good at buying other people who do smart stuff, then there won’t be any need to even announce the combatants. “Your winner, by default…Facebook!”

By: Martin Edic

Martin Edic — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:24:39 +0000

As a former GM of an email provider I’d add this to the ‘teenagers don’t email’ thread: It’s true, they don’t. Until they get to college when they have to communicate with teachers. And until they enter the workforce. So email is a ‘grownup’, ‘work-related’ tool in their minds. For peer communication they’re on to to everything you mention.
And, as an old guy, I have to say that facebook rocks- they are going to be the grownup MySpace, the one you graduate to.