Why google beat Yahoo

Google beat Yahoo because Google knew exactly what business they were in, and excelled at that business.

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Yahoo wanted to be the all-encompassing portal that gave you everything on the web inside of a Yahoo page.

BZZT. Wrong.

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Matthew Duggan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

Google beat Yahoo because Google knew exactly what business they were in, and excelled at that business.

Search.

Yahoo wanted to be the all-encompassing portal that gave you everything on the web inside of a Yahoo page.

BZZT. Wrong.

Well said Michael. Exactly right.

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Bruce NewMedia

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

Google beat Yahoo because Google knew exactly what business they were in, and excelled at that business.

Search.

Yahoo wanted to be the all-encompassing portal that gave you everything on the web inside of a Yahoo page.

BZZT. Wrong.

Michael is correct....and many so-called experts thought giant Yahoo would crush the little G upstart....amongst many ways to compare them, just look at their stock prices ..wow, what a difference!
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Marty S 14 years ago

The fact of the matter is that both companies have done very, very well.

Its always easy to see things in hind sight, and I would bet that most people here - if not every last one of us, would have bet on Yahoo rather than Google back in 1999. Thats how radical Google was in keeping things so utterly simple on their search page.
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tpw

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

Google beat Yahoo because Google knew exactly what business they were in, and excelled at that business.

Search.

Yahoo wanted to be the all-encompassing portal that gave you everything on the web inside of a Yahoo page.

BZZT. Wrong.

Michael stole my answer!!! LOL

It can be summed up in one word, FOCUS...

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onlinestorehere

14 years ago

why does google beat yahoo! , it's no need to do that

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niffybranco 14 years ago

Google picked a niche focused on it, became the best at it before trying to diversify, yahoo tried to excel at every niche thus mastering none a lot of marketers could learn from this.
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tyroneshum

14 years ago

Google beats Yahoo basically for its relevancy on keywords particularly every search term that every user may type into the search engine. Google has this genius when it comes to search so definitely, users find it more useful.

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new12world

14 years ago

is it really true "Yahoo scared of microsoft " ..?

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roger123

14 years ago

Google delivers better results so people stick to Google - that is the unique selling point of Google. If Yahoo or Bing can deliver such results people would move to them!

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frqhuss

14 years ago

I think yahoo took google very light and thought it would hard to beat them but google was on way to be number 1 and now its quite hard to beat them....

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Marty S 14 years ago

Here is why Google beat Yahoo (1999):

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(from today, but still very much the same:

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Simplicity and clarity.

To add insult to injury, Yahoo passed up the chance to outright buy Google in its early days.
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- el-chucklebuck 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Marty S
  
  To add insult to injury, Yahoo passed up the chance to outright buy Google in its early days.
  
  I didn't know yahoo had the opportunity to purchase google.
  All in all, a very interesting read.
  
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bizfox

14 years ago

This example is inspiring to small companies because it gives us motivation and hope that size doesn't matter. Being the greatest at 1 thing is better than being just good at everything.

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ChrisDouthit

14 years ago

I tend to use Yahoo more than Google now a days. Google has a clean look, but Yahoo results have been far more accurate for me lately.

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robertphillips

14 years ago

Its kinda of funny how Yahoo has gone down hill since Google came out.

Did any one know that Yahoo had a chance to buy Google but didnt.

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Fraggler

14 years ago

Was Yahoo even the preferred search engine before Google stormed in? I used many but mainly Altavista. Yahoo was always Yaauck! The results were messy and nothing has changed.

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Ishan Soni

14 years ago

Google succeeded over Yahoo because they were able to find how to give the best experience and give their users instant gratification.

They also split tested how many ads/page were effective.

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14 years ago

Good read

I really enjoy this post

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