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Monday, May 24, 2004
Update: Yahoo Normal Results are Back
Dang -- I should have saved a screenshot. But the normal Yahoo results are back. That's good.
Dang -- I should have saved a screenshot. But the normal Yahoo results are back. That's good.
Good luck Aaron!
Blogs are helpful for lots of things. Now, they even help you lose weight. And if Aaron Wall is right, they make money too. Good luck with both, Aaron: weight loss.
Blogs are helpful for lots of things. Now, they even help you lose weight. And if Aaron Wall is right, they make money too. Good luck with both, Aaron: weight loss.
What's with the new Yahoo? Is Yahoo Trying to Lose?
After the Florida update and after Yahoo stopped delivering Google results, I thought Yahoo had Google on the ropes, figuratively speaking. Of course, Google was still going public with a $20+ billion valuation, so it's tough to be too negative. Google still rules, but now it seems the competitors are trying to keep it that way.
Yesterday, I ran some searches on Yahoo -- no problem. This morning, I do the same thing and it's like somebody hijacked Yahoo overnight. Someone that was trying to get Yahoo to lose the search wars.
It's 2004 when there are plenty of smart people at all the search engines working on delivering better and better search results, and at least some people that know something about web design. Or so I thought.
Yahoo's new SERP's (search engine results pages) are the ugliest thing I've seen in a long time. (Note: as of right now, there must be a lot of people checking out the new look, because it's taking forever to deliver the results.)
Does anyone like this new look? First, the big black titles and all the white space is an ugly design with a horrible use of space. Second, my screen settings are pretty small, and on my monitor the results page shows nothing but Sponsored Results. You have to scroll down past two sets up sponsored results and a link to Yahoo shopping to even see the actual organic search results. Ugh.
Of course, Yahoo makes money only from the sponsored listings and Yahoo shopping, so it makes sense to put as many of these categories of listings higher. But the current page would be the equivalent of a television station running 30 minutes of commercials at the start of a one hour sitcom.
Note to search engine competitors: Google won because people thought it had better results. Over time, more people are going to use the search engine that they think delivers betters organic results. Ads are ok, if they're separated, but they are ads. Putting an entire page of them on top of free search results is not the way to win the search engine preference wars.
After the Florida update and after Yahoo stopped delivering Google results, I thought Yahoo had Google on the ropes, figuratively speaking. Of course, Google was still going public with a $20+ billion valuation, so it's tough to be too negative. Google still rules, but now it seems the competitors are trying to keep it that way.
Yesterday, I ran some searches on Yahoo -- no problem. This morning, I do the same thing and it's like somebody hijacked Yahoo overnight. Someone that was trying to get Yahoo to lose the search wars.
It's 2004 when there are plenty of smart people at all the search engines working on delivering better and better search results, and at least some people that know something about web design. Or so I thought.
Yahoo's new SERP's (search engine results pages) are the ugliest thing I've seen in a long time. (Note: as of right now, there must be a lot of people checking out the new look, because it's taking forever to deliver the results.)
Does anyone like this new look? First, the big black titles and all the white space is an ugly design with a horrible use of space. Second, my screen settings are pretty small, and on my monitor the results page shows nothing but Sponsored Results. You have to scroll down past two sets up sponsored results and a link to Yahoo shopping to even see the actual organic search results. Ugh.
Of course, Yahoo makes money only from the sponsored listings and Yahoo shopping, so it makes sense to put as many of these categories of listings higher. But the current page would be the equivalent of a television station running 30 minutes of commercials at the start of a one hour sitcom.
Note to search engine competitors: Google won because people thought it had better results. Over time, more people are going to use the search engine that they think delivers betters organic results. Ads are ok, if they're separated, but they are ads. Putting an entire page of them on top of free search results is not the way to win the search engine preference wars.
