Do you Yahoo! or Google this
In my life as an online citizen, two destinations are indispensable. One is Yahoo!, a gargantuan domain that provides more free services than a sane person would try to count. The other is Google, which makes my virtual movements faster and more exact than ever. Online life without either is inconceivable. Google has embedded itself into the lifestyles of ordinary Internet citizens and the business practices of companies more profoundly and securely than Yahoo! has. Yahoo! is certainly more diversified than Google, with a portion of its empire devoted to nearly every activity in which a person could engage online: playing games, booking travel, researching stocks, meeting a soul mate, chatting about nothing, watching music videos on and on.
Yahoo! operates the most popular G-rated, legal, free activity platform on the open Internet, Yahoo! has, until recently, forsaken its roots as a search engine and left the fertile field of keyword matching open to Google. Each service is a cornerstone of the Internet. Prediction is a risky business, but when I’m in a divining mood, I can easily see Google becoming the most important online service in history, approaching the geek-idealist’s dream of indexing every bit of human knowledge and virtual expression, with an awareness of the surrounding context and with each contribution ranked by its peers and instantly accessible. The surprising part is how closely Google is chasing it already. With each passing day, the thought becomes more inconceivable for life without Google.