Guest festprint Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 There has been a lot of rumors lately, yahoo buying Overture, then buying Inktomi, and now on to buying google. Are there any truths in those rumors, if any, what would be the ODP's position?
Meta pvgool Posted July 30, 2003 Meta Posted July 30, 2003 Are there any truths in those rumors Don't know. This forum is for ODP related issues only. There are many fora about search engines. Maybe you could try to ask the question there. what would be the ODP's position? None. We don't have a relation with either Google or Yahoo. It's up to them to use our data or not. I will not answer PM or emails send to me. If you have anything to ask please use the forum.
Guest liftarn Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 A historical note: eGroups who used ODPs catalog structure was bought by Yahoo and became Yahoo Groups. It looks like they pretty much left the structure as it was.
Guest patu Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 There has been a lot of rumors lately, yahoo buying Overture, then buying Inktomi, and now on to buying google. Rumors about Yahoo buying Overture and Inktomi? Indeed, it bought Overture two weeks ago, and Inktomi in March. But I haven't heard about rumors that Yahoo would buy Google. Yahoo already has three search engines, Inktomi, and Altavista and Alltheweb purchased by Overture in April. With Overture, it has also a service selling paied listing, so I don't understand what it would do with Google. Besides, when it was rumored, that Microsoft would be interested to buy Google when Yahoo bought Overture, the founders of Google told that they are not selling.
Guest patu Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 This forum is for ODP related issues only. Well, maybe here in Members Lounge we can be more relaxed about that and discuss off-topic issues. However, as you told, we are not related to Google, so that will be only speculation.
Guest schoik Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 Yahoo! probably will not buy Google.. If they do I'll be pissed. Because Yahoo! will control AOL's search listings, and many other ones as now they control Microsoft's listings because they bought Overture. Although if that did happen Yahoo! would be rich because AOL and Microsoft will pay big bucks to have top-listings. Anyhow, this doesn't include AOL being kicked out of Time Warner and being sold... Teehehe!
totalxsive Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 Yahoo own Altavista, Inktomi and FAST/Alltheweb (through their acquisition of Overture). Buying Google would lead to an almost absolute monopoly.
Guest schoik Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 Monopoly, very true... Yahoo!'s stock would go through the roof and as I said, they'd have big bucks, but only we can hope they don't do that because if they do then they will control the search engine submissions and they might make it where you have to pay to submit, If that happens as $3.95 a submission where would we all go for our searching needs?
jeanmanco Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 Don't worry. There are search engines a-plenty in development. Not that I think for one moment that Yahoo will be able to buy Google.
Guest schoik Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 You're right, expec. with how much money they spent on buying Overature.
Meta hutcheson Posted August 15, 2003 Meta Posted August 15, 2003 A monopoly is not that easy to get on the web, unless you can somehow contrive to control the ISP, homepage, browser, web protocols, or user system to lock other providers out. Yahoo doesn't have control over ANY of those. If they don't give what people want, people will try another site. I'd like to see more competition, of course: at this point the ODP is too much the "only directory game in town" for my comfort, and Google is too much the "only search engine". But the amount of investment it would take to seriously challenge the quality of either of those is daunting. Yahoo may provide a "second source" with inktomi and its own directory (both of which are comparable to the ODP and Google), and then there is the MSN-zone, which is all about wondering how they can get golden eggs and pate de fois gras from the same customers. But their attitude is too deeply ingrained "quality search results are the ones that bring most money back to us" to ever compete for serious websurfers. They'll do fine because of their enormous lockin efforts and capabilities, but that's all.
jeanmanco Posted August 16, 2003 Posted August 16, 2003 Here's one in Alpha-testing: Wotbot. Wotbot is a new and independant Search Engine, and has been in development since October 2002. Wotbot aims to become a market and technological leader with its new and innovative suite of experimental features that will change the way users search. Currently in Alpha testing mode, Wotbot is planning to move into Beta later this year. The index is currently very small (only 6 million pages) and is intended to only serve as ‘test data’ to help build and test the system. Wotbot will soon begin crawling again to dramatically increase the index size. We hope to reach 100 million by the end of the year.
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