How long will it take for google to acquire yahoo inc?
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You know it's big when it's on the evening national news. Recently as I was watching our national news, a story came on about Yahoo and Google and how there is a war brewing between the two for supremacy on the web. The way the story was presented, you were sure that when the dust settled, one of the two would no longer be in existence. \n\nSo that got me thinking, is this going to be that big? Is it possible that one of these two internet powerhouses could disappear? I think not. \n\nIn the end, Yahoo and Google are different. They have different markets and different audiences. Yahoo is the "one stop shop" for the web. You can get your news and sports headlines, meet people, chat, email and yes even search. \n\nGoogle on the other hand is primarily search. You can't chat to anyone on a Google product, nor can you use a Google email address to send funny pictures and jokes to friends and family. You use Google to search plain and simple. Sure they have shopping and news, but that's all built around search. \n\nSo do I think there' is going to be this incredible online battle? I don't think so. \n\nConsider how Google started - they won over the "techies" - those people who used the web for more than email and instant messaging. They won them over by having one product - search. That was all they did but they did it extremely well. \n\nGoogle has really only become popular with the masses in the last 12 to 18 months. The general population never really heard about Google (unless they were referred there by their techie family member) until the casts of popular TV shows said they "Googled" someone. \n\nBy now you are saying, "but Yahoo! is building their own search engine and they've had a year to work on the algorithms." This is true. They did finalize the purchase of Inktomi last March which would have given them a year to develop the algorithms they would need to compete with Google. But it's going to take more than that to win over people from Google. Especially since Googling is the "in" thing to do. \n\nSo do I see a battle brewing for internet supremacy between Google and Yahoo! No. They are just too different. \n\nI do, however, see a battle brewing between Yahoo! and MSN. This is probably a year away yet, but Microsoft has planned to launch its search by the end of the year. \n\nGoogle, I think, will remain. Maybe not as it is today (actually it will probably be totally different this time next year. That's my one and only prediction for this year). But its hold on the search market should remain constant well into next year. \n\nOnce MSN search starts proving itself, combined with the awesome marketing machine that is Microsoft, you might see the Google (and Yahoo!) market share begin to crumble. But as I said, that is likely a year away.
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Go to Alibaba.com. Incidentally, it is actually now owned by YAHOO. One of their better purchases, that will undoubtedly realise its full inherent value in the global economy in the near future.
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Yahoo does not have that feature yet.
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It's depends on your site and also on Search engines you are submitting your site to. Google approx. take 60 days to list your site submitted on Google. to Submit your site at google use "http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl" . I find Yahoo is pretty fast to list newly added site as comapred to Google. May be yahoo has less number of site queued to be listed as compared to Google.\n\nIf you have some specific question ? can be answered in detail. It's not very clear from your question.
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google has always been a search company.  they are just now adding on other services, like email, and some other things, but their emphasis remains in search.\n\nyahoo has been more of a service company from the beginning.  email, chat clients, personals, tech and other forums, news, this answers forum, ..., with many more services to come in the future as well.  Yahoo also has deals with other companies for internet service.  google, not yet.\n\nwhile google has a better search function, yahoo has other things that make it more valuable to more people, so yahoo is likely not going anywhere any time soon.
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Yahoo was founded Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in Jan. 1994 and incorporated on Mar. 1995.
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Yes...yahoo is world wide
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Pay lots of money.  Google rates their advertisers first.  Yahoo sells the ads space on the sides, top and bottom banner of the search page as does Ask and Alta Vista.
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Yahoo and Google are competitors. What do you expect?
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its not going to be fast but it can be done ask the almighty google
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The countdown until Yahoo pulls this question has begun ...
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yahoo. look at yahoo stock price flying up the sky these days.
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Never. Google renowned for its creativity and innovation is struggling in the internet market with a strong competition from yahoo and MSN. \n\nIt looks like google will be bankrupt soon. Other than internet search engine all the other products launched by google are big failures.  \n\nGoogle is just competitor in micrsofts internet market. But microsft's whole marketing strategy is revolving around it Operating Sytem.  So until someone breaks the windows no one can enter microsofts market. \n\nGoogle has to do lot more things to defeat these giants.
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I read an article in Wired that it was in the works for Yahoo. Besides that, no. :(
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Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.\n\nThe Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.\n\nJerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors.\n\nDue to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million.\n\nRealizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees.\n\nToday, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
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Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information.\n\nPls check the links provided.
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Okay, here I go:\n1) Studies show that the general public cannot discern the quality of the two search engines.  However, Yahoo! is still seen (Ad Age) as offering a wider variety of practical services and this would be the main 'thing' that Yahoo! is doing over Google.  Also, Yahoo! offers a direct link to a human-sorted directory, which many novice web users may find attractive.\n2. Google's mapping technology was for time regarded as superior.  It allowed for multi-point trips (for example, you could get the directions from your house, to the museum, then the symphony hall, then back all at once, not one leg at a time).  It also allowed users to plot things like service stations on a graphically superior topographic or satellite map.  However, Yahoo! Maps Beta now offers many of these features and may have been introduced in sufficient time to win back past users who may have been starting to switch to Google.  MapQuest also offers strong competition because of its percieved easy of use and easily accessible practical features.\n3. Many consumers have yet to discover a need for desktop search clients, as the average harddrive is relatively small (compared to, say for example, the Internet) and most consumers (Ad Age) would agree with the statement that they keep their primary files relatively maintained.  However, I would venture to say that Google Desktop has a slight advantage insofar that it is free and usually comes bundled with antivirus software, mapping programs and other freebies consumers want.  However, Windows Vista has a feature called Virtual Directories which are essentially constantly running searches.  I.E You would setup a Virtual Directory called 'Latin Spice!' and it would automatically display every Latin dance MP3 on your computer in the 'directory', regardless of where the files are actually located.  This may make desktop searching software essentially outdated, but it remains to be seen.\n4. Another issue is Google's notorious secrecy.  Although it was bemussing back when they were a 'garage corporation', now that their 'playing' with billions of investors dollars and not the family toolshed, investors want to know whats going on.  Of course there's going to need to be some secrecy lest they leak out ideas to competitors, but overall Google has been slammed for a lack of a definate business plan, and overall direction for the firm.  Case in point, it was speculated that Google would reveal as Google-PC running Google software at C3 this year.  Such wild speculations and twists leads to investor unease.  Also, they are entering into the video market.  I'm not quite sure what the motivation for this was, as they are (at the moment) clearly no match for iTunes powerful video database.  Also, Google fails to advertise these features to the public relying instead (and I believe too heavily at times) on gossip and internet chatter.  Such channels are insufficient for the casual internet user to take advantage of.  Case in point again, many users would be surprised to find out you can ask Google simple questions even over SMS on your cellphone without an Internet browser.  However, Google's AdSense program, though relatively new, gives Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) quite a run for its money.  Yahoo! Search Marketing is seen as less attractive to the 'common man' wanting to go into online advertisement because (although they are optional costs) it makes it appear as though large setup fees and ongoing charges are required.  Google's AdSense seems to almost be tailored to small business and large alike, with only a $5 setup fee, more flexible use of what they call 'campains' and an arguably larger viewer base.  Also, Google makes it easier to exapand the AdSense viewing public by allowing even runners of small or personal sites to display the ads, whereas Yahoo! Search Marketing has a more rigourous site requirement