Tag Archive: yahoo

Lee Odden took a good quick video with Matt Cutts at PubCon. Matt, "This is what [small sites] do if they don't have much guidance. ... And you gotta remember, you gotta make good search results for them too." Well said. — #   11/23/2006

GigaOm's Robert Young on Yahoo: "They made a very big and expensive mistake by bringing in a traditional broadcast TV executive to run this group… one that AOL seems destined to repeat with their recent executive shuffle. The rules of broadcast media are antithetical to the factors that drive social media, and the thing that I will agree with Brad on is that such insights and visions must be something that is intuitive and native for the leadership at the top." — #   11/20/2006

Fred Wilson on Yahoo: The same point was made by Randy Befumo of Legg Mason, in today's New York Times in the piece about Yahoo! being a "value stock": "If you have a traffic problem, then you have a fundamental business problem because you have nothing to convert into revenue dollars," he said. "But if you have a monetization problem, which is what Yahoo effectively has, you always have options." — #   11/20/2006

evhead, "All I'm saying is that you often hear about companies that should have sold when they had the opportunity2C but you rarely hear about companies that shouldn't have." — #   11/9/2006

More Blog Icons, Fewer Share Icons

Matt and Rand debate. Are the below icons good for your site or not? Matt says they distract the writer from producing good content. Rand says they can benefit the site by demonstrating that your content is there for the sharing. Rand makes a much more persuasive argument, while including several important caveats.
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Results Cloudy, Ask Again Later

MSFT search has been launched. Becuase of the way I use search engines (mostly for research), it will be some time before I have my own evaluation of MSFT search. Two bloggers did some searches of their own to evaluate the new service. Their experiences are starkly different and highlight, I think, [...]