Find, Use, Share + Expand Me.
I cant wait to start really blogging again, but these damn betas, and associated landgrabs are all consuming. Today's baby is quickly a narky adolescent playing in the seniors : Off to the G I will be tonite to see the Dees vs Hawks, my one moment of peace in week (as well as running which has been necessary for sanity) It's all good though. (email me at redbarren dot gmail dot com if u dont have a beta invite for gnoos btw its not just for aussies - ive pretty much ditched my rss reader and still keeping up with hollywood, mountainview and afl)
gnoos has been performing well, although I should have expected all the variations of vanity search that people, esp bloggers do (search by blog url, feed url, blog title, name of blogger, and so on - lots of bug fixes/product feature gaps in there) To get to launch now its the classic "how many concurrent users can we handle problem" which the nandos geek cave is currently solving.
This Yahoo.pdf from their 2006 analyst day is textbook in how to run a portal. Irrespective of the adsense monopoly, Yahoo to me (from a media perspective) has always had the most interesting combination of assets out there. And it spends alot of time on the connecting glue. (well more than competition anyway) Their latest home page design for example is mainstream internet utility.
Yahoo just need their advertiser algorithms to deliver higher yields (which they have heap of ad technology at code complete stage) and once they start delighting advertisers, as well as end users, it will get very interesting. My guess is the google home page in 5 years will deliver the same functionality as Yahoo's latest version today. The importance of Search + Asia-Pac to Yahoo is very interesting.
gnoos has been performing well, although I should have expected all the variations of vanity search that people, esp bloggers do (search by blog url, feed url, blog title, name of blogger, and so on - lots of bug fixes/product feature gaps in there) To get to launch now its the classic "how many concurrent users can we handle problem" which the nandos geek cave is currently solving.
This Yahoo.pdf from their 2006 analyst day is textbook in how to run a portal. Irrespective of the adsense monopoly, Yahoo to me (from a media perspective) has always had the most interesting combination of assets out there. And it spends alot of time on the connecting glue. (well more than competition anyway) Their latest home page design for example is mainstream internet utility.
Yahoo just need their advertiser algorithms to deliver higher yields (which they have heap of ad technology at code complete stage) and once they start delighting advertisers, as well as end users, it will get very interesting. My guess is the google home page in 5 years will deliver the same functionality as Yahoo's latest version today. The importance of Search + Asia-Pac to Yahoo is very interesting.
posted by redbarren at 1:27 PM
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