Yahoo & Google
Submitted by root on Mon, 05/23/2005 - 19:38.
Yahoo has been steadily gaining on its former partner, Google, since they separated in 2002. In 2001, Yahoo accepted a proposal from Overture for a partnership in online advertising, in 2002 they purchased a faltering company named Inktomi for their search technology, which they subsequently re-wrote and is considered to be on equal paring with the Google engine. This with the increasing popularity of Yahoo services (personals, the new music engine, auto sales, among others) could eventually threaten Google's dominance as the defacto portal on the Net.
Do you agree?