[zmimon]

Well, speaking of obsessions, I'm puzzled as to why people are so obsessed with the idea that Yahoo and Google can not co-exist. Why does it have to be "google won", "yahoo lost" and because yahoo yahoo did not "win" they have "failed"?

Yahoo is wildly successful by a tonne of metrics, and yet they seem to be widely perceived as failures. This is something I don't understand.

Best I can explain it is that the tech savvy digerati have moved on from Yahoo personally and are unable to perceive that in the mainstream, Yahoo is widely used and liked.

[dotcoma]

if only Yahoo! would really embrace its people powered roots, nowadays evident in Flickr and del.icio.us, and keep these sites independent and geeky, and useful to feed bottom-up information and content into Yahoo! (remember? it was a directory 15 years ago), and accept the fact that most of the users of Yahoo! proper are not super technologically savvy anymore, and create a simple portal by the people and for the people, and never be afraid of being too "low" by appealing to normal people's fascination with, well, other people, famous people, singers, movies, sports, gossip etc.