Yahoooooo!
As you may or may not already know Matt started his brand new job at Yahoo! this past week.
Of course this means that we expect you all to install the Yahoo! toolbar and use Yahoo! as your default search. Moving forward the “G” word is a naughty one in this family.
Thank you all for your attention to this matter!
And gratz Matt.
Congratulations Matt,
Will check out the Yahoo toolbar, but won’t promise anything!
Are the pictures of Colin in his Huskies gear his way of saying Yahoo for daddy at Yahoo! ? Just remembered that Yahoo isn’t Yahoo! if you don’t add the !
Or should Colin give equal time to the Northwestern ___________? Please fill in the blank.
Ok, I have a couple questions: How does one “uninstall” the Yahoo toolbar(which I don’t recall installing of my own free will)? Also, some entity is trying to take over my “naughty G word” homepage and I suspect Yahoo is the culprit (I get a pop-up notification several times a day regarding this). Perhaps this is not the response you desired, but I would prefer if Yahoo wasn’t quite so aggressively trying to “take over” my computer. Perhaps I will now be considered an outcast from the family. Alas.
LOL. Or… alternately… read what you’re clicking “yes” to.
Just kidding. I’m still learning all this PeeCee stuff and sometimes the computers do seem to get carried away with themselves. I definitely miss my Mac at the office!
And, Mary Ann, it is Northwestern WILDCATS!
Congratulations!
More someday.
What’s better about the Yahoo! tool bar than what Google offers? Besides helping pay my son’s salary. Does Yahoo! offer a news service?
First off, molto congratulations on the new job. That’s pretty sweet.
But…now that I know someone at Yahoo!, I have a couple of comments as to why I think that the G word site is better (ahem, cough, cough)–at least for search. Simplicity–when I want to search for something, I don’t also want to be bombarded with news, advertisements, half a dozen categories of online shopping, check my mail–no, I want to search. Yahoo! does many things very well, but its too much on my eyes. Yes I realize that Yahoo!’s business model involves much more than just “search” –but search is the new black. When it comes to “search” –Google is simple, elegant even.
The differences in the search algorithms are probably trivial–I know enough about how the web works to find what I’m looking for regardless of which one I use. But the point is that at least up til now, Google has owned search and they don’t (well, not so much anymore) pretend to do a lot of other things very well at the same time. It’s the same reason that the iPod is the best mp3 player–it doesn’t try to be a PDA and a cell phone AND an mp3 player, it’s just an mp3 player (well, sort of) and it does that one job exceedingly well–rather than try to do two or more jobs “good enough”. I like this next example because for some reason I get a kick out of the phrase “skeet shooter”: an Olympic caliber gymnast is that good because that’s ALL she does–she doesn’t also try to be an Olympic caliber speed skater or internationally competitive as a skeet shooter at the same time.
Anyway, now that I’ve completely insulted your new company, I do have to admit that Yahoo! mail is my prefered free email provider, although I’m not convinced about the new version that’s still in beta that they’ve rolled out–at least legacy Yahoo! mail is better than Gmail. But for search–I’m sticking with simple–for now anyway.
I am completely tip-toeing into Yahoo. When I wanted the Detroit Lions score, after we had barely missed the end of the game (I know, but there’s no accounting for tastes.), I went to the main page and clicked Sports on the left column, and fairly rapidly got my score. (They *did* win.) It’s going to be one thing at a time, with my consciousness never far away because one of my *sons* works there, and that’s enough to make something interesting — even cross-country as a spectator sport, to take one old example.
I *do* think it’s an indication of respect that David Smeigh gives you such a clear and informative review of Yahoo! .
My Rule of Pay has long been:
If your pay is the only pay you’re paid, you’re underpaid.
You have sought the non-dollar pay of being where you want in business, and learning what you want to learn. You have paid some extra time for the opportunity, but several times before you have knowingly, and with reason, accepted a burst of extra effort and time, and reverted to a long-term balance when you could. I think it will be so again; my compliments on maintaining balance in a heady environment.
I like your mind. Keep learning, and have some responsible fun with the new crew.
I think my dear brother has quite nicely laid out the reasons why, for now, I’ll probably continue to use the “g” word for search, too. Keep it Simple Schtoopid. LOL….. Quite frankly, “g” has become a verb in my vocabulary……
I do remember way back in the day when the web was first new — Yahoo was my search engine of choice. I hated it when they started mucking it all up with the crap on the home page.
I guess I’ll give Yahoo! another try, though. I do admit to feeling a small thrill when I heard a commercial on TV the other day, thinking “Wow, I know somebody taht works for them! How cool am I?” Or something like that……..
Yahoo’s search result page is just as “simple” as Google’s. The only busy page is the home page, and you can ignore that, or simply bypass it by downloading Firefox and using yahoo as your default search in the little box in the upper right hand corner. (or see original post about the toolbar)
And while Google is currently the industry leader in search they are by no means concentrated just on that. They are as diversified as Yahoo. In fact they just acquired YouTube this week.
For a list of all they do check em out: http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/.
Sure, the ads on Yahoo may be a bit more prominent, but that’s okay, it’s those ads that pay our mortgage.
Congrats Matt,
I’m very jealous, they have some of the coolest stuff and it works so well. I like google and all, but yahoo still makes stuff that works better. Oh and the email client is better now. Also you can see I’m a big fan of Flickr.
Congrats again.
You know Deb, thanks, your last line puts it in perspective, seriously.
The Department of State network is one of the most highly attacked in the world–thus they have one of the most stringent security policies, meaning that I’m stuck with just webpages instead of toolbars and such for most of the day.
I still think that “less is more” –it’s the same reason that the last time I had a VCR with a clock on it I never bothered to change the time–I didn’t need to, that’s why I have a watch. Give me the basics, play, fast forward, rewind, eject. It’s great that its technologically possible to set up a VCR to tape a show a year in advance, but who uses something like that?
Anyway, Matt–good luck with the new jobby job. I am jealous of all of the new gadgets I’m sure you’ve been issued. And if you ever need to “expand operations” in this part of the world, let me know…
I downloaded IE 7 the other day–it has a very FireFox-y feel to it. Tabbed browsing, the same default search box in the upper right hand corner (that you can set to any searcher you like). They did something with the default font settings too, I’ll have to take a look, I didn’t update my monitor/graphics card/drivers etc. but the fonts on IE 7 look crisper than they did with IE 6.
Firefox 2.0 came out on the 24th, but I haven’t had a chance to take a look yet.
Clearly even though IE is still over 80% market share they are worried about the 12% and rising of Firefox.