In 2005 Yahoo! released its search API, the developer community went crazy… I assembled a couple of programmers and built a vertical search engine called MetaMojo.com. We subsequently moved away from Yahoo!’s API and built a Nutch-based crawler instead because Yahoo! took one step forward but two step back.
Today Yahoo! Search goes open… This basically allows publishers to tweak Yahoo!’s search, though they cannot tweak results. I think this will be noise today, gone tomorrow. Yahoo! should have really opened up its search platform then, fully. It didn’t. My frustrations working with Yahoo! then were emblematic of everything that is being written about Yahoo! today.
Not a day goes by where Yahoo! does not seem to launch something new, yet old. Yahoo! is now cornered into a corner like a dangerous, wounded animal. Its moves are erratic, it will attempt everything to fend off its pursuers… get out of its way, it might fall under its own weight.
Note: Long YHOO stock.
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