I feel sorry for Yahoo.
December 13th, 2006No company should be in an unenviable position that Yahoo is these days. The company is under relentless pressure from Google which seems like it can do no wrong, while Yahoo’s executive team is being re-shuffled, under ever-increasing pressure from Wall St. to do some kind of acquisition, most probably Facebook, it’s developers write sad blog posts and even it’s christmas parties suck. Boy. Bad times.
Only a few months back, maybe an year, I thought Yahoo is giving Google a good fight. It has done some excellent acquisitions like Flickr, del.icio.us, etc. Sadly, I see no focus, because Yahoo Photos still exists, and was re-vamped recently. The new Yahoo Mail Beta is hardly usable. Sigh. There’s got to be a good competitor to Google, at least to keep it from slacking off on innovation. Here’s hoping 2007 will be a much better year for Yahoo.
Apart from that, Happy Holidays, everyone!