Monday, August 24, 2009

Yahoo takes on Google...and will probably get beaten down...again

Over at TechCrunch Erick Schonfeld writes about Yahoo's attempt to be the best at people search.
The new design will focus on making search more personalized, and specifically going after Google in people search . “We’re taking that away from them,” vows Yahoo’s VP of Search Products and Design Larry Cornett. When you type in a person’s name in Yahoo, it will do a better job of bringing up links to their profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and FriendFeed—something Google already does exceedingly well. But Cornett throws down a challenge for Google: “When we launch this, you’re going to come to Yahoo to search for people.”


Full article at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/24/what-matters-most-to-yahoo-is-taking-away-people-search-from-google/

I bet you Yahoo looses...badly.

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