What are the hottest internet businesses in recent years? Youtube (think Flickr), Google's contextual ad (think Overtures) and its famed softbot technology (think AltaVista), numerous blogs (think Geocities), and Facebook (think Geocities again). Yahoo has many similar operations, their names shown in the parentheses following the "think" word. Yet Yahoo failed to take advantages of all these rising tides. With so many acquired operations, Yahoo seemed to lose focus on how to make all these pieces working together.
Can Microsoft unleash Yahoo's potential? Not likely. Unless Microsoft can provide better focus on Yahoo's many operations than Yahoo itself. What Yahoo needs is not one big investor who will swallow the entire business. To survive and even thrive, Yahoo may want to bring in strategic partners who will direct resources (talents, technologies, and capitals) to and put focus on any one Yahoo operation. A small, dedicated team with big incentive can unleash a Yahoo operation's potential.
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A friend's little son yelled "No google, no google, no google again!" at my home last week, when me and my friend were working on a project, researching some info. Surprised! Googlism had turned us into googlsts, but tired the new generation! Is googlism really a new religion? :-P
Anything good and attractive can get people hooked on that. You friend should tell the son "No tv, no video game again"...
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