Yahoo! Making Like Google

Yahoo! is considering redesigning its front page to make its search engine more prominent. Shares in both Internet leaders have been hit hard this year as investors have started reassessing the growth prospects and competitive landscape of the lucrative online search business.







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The redesign would be the first major overhaul of Yahoo!'s front page since 2004. The discussions underscore the emphasis that the Sunnyvale, Calif., company is placing on search. comScore Networks estimates that Yahoo!, the No. 2 player in the U.S. search market, has 29% share, trailing only Google's 41%.

Yahoo!, which also is considering dangling prizes before users in hope of boosting the use of its search engine, is testing the changes to select users, according to Internetnews.com.

Investors are keenly interested in Yahoo!'s progress in search, especially since Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker told Bloomberg News in January that the company's goal wasn't to be No. 1. She said that Yahoo! would be "happy" to maintain its market share.

"It is an issue," says Martin Pyykkonen, an analyst with Hoefer & Arnett who rates Google a buy and Yahoo! a strong buy. "It's a 50-50 split among investors who think that Google will maintain its lead and those who think Yahoo! will close the gap."

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I would go with yahoo, yeah it's behind a bit... but there are making things better even if it's a little late, i still think googles going to crash and burn.

sorry but google is 2,000 times better and i allways use google to search for any files or anything else )))

sorry but google is the best and for now will be the best..

google is financially superior to yahoo in every way and their search engine is awesome so I can't see yahoo beating them anytime soon.

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Google will always be my fav search engineer and probably will always stay the most popular 1

For me, much better is google... It's only my preposition. Maybe, in future yahoo will be better :P

I like Both Yahoo and Gmail Yahoo's Blue skin attracted me and google's simplicity attracted me

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I'll probably still be using Google but my primary email will always be Yahoo! so I guess in a way I'll still be patronising both!

I still do prefer Google over Yahoo, as do many people out there

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