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Originally posted by mistressofnite
Would you say that Yahoo's biggest draw has been it's capacity as a search engine? And if so, wouldn't Yahoo want to do something about it's biggest competitor : google? I would think Yahoo would want to acquire Google eventually to eliminate them as their biggest competitor in the SE world. This may be one step in that direction? If not, you're right, it's odd to have two sites doling out the same SE results. Also, why would Yahoo, after having customers pay to be listed in their directory, wanto to have DMOZ results returned FIRST, before their PAYING clients? This can't be what they are shooting for. I don't think Yahoo is that dumb. I think they'll eventually gobble Google up, and spit DMOZ out for good. What sayeth all ye?
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That's also why i'm worried. As powerful as they already are, them gobbling google up would mean the end of real search engines as it is. Yahoo would either use Google's SE technology, or get rid of it.
Still less space for the webmaster to work. Very soon no one will be able to get listed for free. It's already very hard, if Google goes away, no one will be able to get significant traffic to their website for free.
Until another Google comes along and refuses to be bought out before they get too big of course.
Another course of action would be that Yahoo keeps the Google technology, give more priority to it's own listings and keeps the Google results for typos and misspellings or anything that can't be found directly in their database, diminishing the importance of Google's results.
Let's also consider Google's Adwords system. It could be very valuable for Yahoo if most of their results are delivered from their database. They are already using a system for the sites in their directory giving them the option to be ranked higher. That could remain in place and still show Adwords results for sites that are not included in the Yahoo DB, giving you results that could look like this:
http://www.hornypoodle.com/yahoogle.jpg