I'm bringing Yahoo! back

Whatever happened to Yahoo!? Why is everybody obsessed with Google? From where I see it, everyone loved Google because they were the alternative. They provided good, free services. They were sticking it to the man!

So now that they are the man, why does everybody still use them? I know plenty of nerds and geeks who love google, run google groups, use google talk, blog on blogger, post on flikr and watch youtube videos. I propose to them to use Yahoo!, post media on independent photo and video hosting sites, keep using blogger (I love blogger!) and set your default search engine to Yahoo!. Stop supporting the new Microsoft!

I will now address Yahoo!. While stalking my search engine indexing status, I have noticed that You! do not have nearly as many current pages indexed as google does. Can you work on that? You are #2 for a few reasons, but this is probably the main one. I believe in you, now you need to believe in yourself.

I'm adding three side notes since I wrote the draft for this blog.

1. Yahoo! just added a fabulous new online magazine named Shine. Shine is one of those websites that you can go to when you need/want a break from work and want to read other people's opinions. It's kind of like Slate magazine or WoWoWow.com

2. I found a cool internet stalking tool that you can use if you are as obsessed as I am about traffic rankings. It's called Compete. I have it on Firefox and every time you go to a website it will display the traffic ranking of that site in the lower right hand bar...very out of the way, but available to view when you want it.

Click here to read more on their site: www.compete.com

"Compete" is how I know Yahoo! is number 2...a very bad number to be.

3. A few other reasons to love Yahoo!: Yahoo! groups are better and they host Freecycle Groups which are in itself fabulous, Yahoo! hosts Dear Abby every day of the year, Yahoo! let's you read your local news on Yahoo!


Good Luck and God Speed.

Click here to search on Yahoo! now.