Comments on: Yahoo Gets Dumped By Maxim

By: peoplemagazine lover

peoplemagazine lover — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:21:19 +0000

By: Burak

Burak — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:15:23 +0000

But a nice gimmick that will give Maxim readers the wow factor they want.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:44:14 +0000

I hate tag cloud

By: holiday

holiday — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:12:23 +0000

thanks

By: Make money

Make money — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:50:14 +0000

and as for Microsoft buying yahoo – I think they should stand alone – what hurt them was the perception of weakness and the idiodizy of playing games with microsoft. made them [ yahoo ] look weak..

By: Make money

Make money — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:48:07 +0000

Yahoo maybe having trouble on the outside – but you have to admit – it’s a matter of perception not reality. Over 400 million people use and depend on yahoo. What people fail to recognize – it’s the business of advertising that is failing – not the use of users.

I know people who can’t surf the web unless it’s thru yahoo – and have no clue of google.

I just wish yahoo would get back on track as a business and a service.

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:42:39 +0000

As I can see, the Quintura uses de Yahoo Search XML… may be they do somenthing inside…

By: Play Games

Play Games — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:56:45 +0000

Hmm interesting times ahead.

By: seo pune

seo pune — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:04:31 +0000

Yup.. 2008 has been terrible for Yahoo.. I think they should have just sold out. Microsoft was really offering a fair price!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:42:54 +0000

2008 has been a terrible year for Yahoo. Cannot seem to get anything right

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:38:32 +0000

Poor old yahoo. Should have done the deal with the gatesman!!!!!

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 1, 2008 | PAGE PROPELLER NEWS

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 1, 2008 | PAGE PROPELLER NEWS — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:14:16 +0000

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By: Yousef Ourabi

Yousef Ourabi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:47 +0000

Erik, if you took more than a cursory glance at a product before writing an article you would know Quintura is just a tag cloud on top of Yahoo’s search feed. So no, Maxim *Search* is still supplied by Yahoo, just wrapped with Quintura’s cloud feed.

By: H8ter

H8ter — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:28:18 +0000

Quintura is a Russian based company, looks to me like the only American company using it is Maxim.com…

By: Arona

Arona — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:19:48 +0000

stop bitching people and give it up to Yakov who is doing some good work!

The good thing about employing a tag cloud, is that you can put in contextual ads much more effectively (as far as I can guess).

Anyway, its always the ones who shout BFD that miss the boat….

By: kerala

kerala — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:14:31 +0000

Erik,

Ultimately Maxim is still getting Y! search results. Seems like the quintura is powered using yahoo! search.

By: rodel

rodel — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:12:05 +0000

search cloud really sucks! i hate that innovation..it appealing

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:18:59 +0000

Erik said... Quintura is a visual search engine that clusters results together into contextually-related topics, which it displays as a tag cloud. Yahoo , Google, Microsoft are already doing document/text clustering already. The only question to ask if Quintura's clustering algorithm has lower error than the ones used by the major vendors and I suspect that the answer is no. The major vendors have a proper R&D division and their job is to scour the literatures to find something useful and also invent their own algorithms that must have performance better than their existing ones. This means they evolve, if they invent better ones at a rate of one per week, then of course they will do a new deployment once every week. Search accuracy is paramount for business survival, that you don't withhold a new deployment of a new algorithm to be done in 2, 3, 4 months time, etc,... because by then your competitor might have edged you out in that time frame by deploying their own. This example is hypothetical, but this is how a company with a proper R&D division work. If Quintura has such a division, then they're welcome to challenge the search vendor incumbents.

By: Subset

Subset — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:04:12 +0000

AOL’s been supposedly dead, for what, 8 years? Yet, they keep on chuggin. The Time Warner acquisition didn’t help them, just like MS won’t help Y!. And Yahoo is in a far better position than AOL was.

AOL, like Yahoo, followed the normal curve to maturity. It seems like once a company gets over the “hockey stick” hype growth area and hits market saturation, the denizens of hype in the valley pronounce the company’s days numbered.

Companies which no longer follow hype curves, but must grow as real businesses, at non-exponential rates, are “dead”

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:48:38 +0000

Did Yahoo hire Isiah Thomas because man are they starting to look like the New York Knicks?

By: tony

tony — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:41:17 +0000

the whole search results are based on yahoo’s index

By: Twitter Me That

Twitter Me That — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:48:50 +0000

Yes, when I think of hot sex I immediately associate it with Star Trek & Star Wars.

By: Auston

Auston — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:59:29 +0000

We can see why you are a fan of the “Tag Cloud”, perv.

By: Cloudface

Cloudface — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:42:54 +0000

this would go in the BFD category.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:34 +0000

It’s fascinating to see how many people are turning their backs and jumping ship from this still profitable company. Short of a miracle, the writing is on the wall and it hasn’t been pretty for quite some time.

Jon
http://dreamclue.com …get the message!