August 2, 2006

Yahoo! – a week of technical problems

by Brian Turner

Yahoo! have had a week of serious technical problems.

Firstly, Yahoo! updated their search algorithm and introduced a new method of crawling the web for information.

Like Google’s bad data push before them, it seems that the result has been to cripple the Yahoo! Search results and reduce the user experience.

With irrelevant results at the fore, and quality websites dropping out, it appears that at a time when Yahoo! could have been trying to position themselves as a market leader while Google was weak, it seems that all they’ve achieved is a pitiful mimicry of Google’s own mistakes.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Yahoo! saw their Yahoo! Messenger service unavailable for many users last Tuesday.

And now you can’t even post a comment to the official Yahoo! blog without a string of error messages.

In a week when Yahoo!’s stock value plummeted, seeing $10 billion wiped from its value, it seems that Yahoo! really need to reorganise themselves a lot better.

Because at present it gives all the impression that steering blind at the helm, without leadership, without direction.

And plenty of technical problems to boot.

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