| 'We will convince people to come to Yahoo! for Search' |
| Raghuvir Badrinath / Bangalore August 10, 2006 |
| Yahoo! is at a crucial juncture. While Google is making it search all over to stay in the lead, Microsoft is upping its ante as it has always done with one or the other new product. Yet this $5.5 billion firm has gone on the front foot in taking up the challenge. Yahoo!, which is among the brands with a top recall, during the past couple of years has lagged in the search segment, losing quite a bit of ground to Google. So Yahoo!, with its half a billion users generating billions of emails on a daily basis, is looking at ways to make people come to it to search. Yahoo! co-founder David Filo, who along with Jerry Yang, co-founded this legendary firm when they were at Stanford, said in Bangalore, |
