Monday, November 13, 2006
Yahoo Hybrid
In the article Yahoo Hybrid by Kevin Delany he talks about the difference between man and a machine. The man being the newspaper and the machine being the internet. It is a huge competitution between the internet and the days of the newpaper. But he goes on to talk about how the internets are now competing after one another. Two huge internet web sites that people use on a daily basis is Yahoo and Google. Yahoo news seems to be very popular. "A decade into the consumer Internet revolution, industry executives and analysts say users favor sites that offer information from more than one news organization. Yahoo, for example, has agreements to display or link to content from about 100 news organizations, from USA Today to French news service Agence France Presse. Users can search through about 7,000 additional online news sources that Yahoo catalogs for information". They also have a quick and easy way to look at different headlines from a lot of different news organizations without having to really wait. " Google displays news from multiple sites, saying it draws on more than 4,500 news sources in English. But it typically does not have agreements to feature them on its site, which can cause trouble. In March, the AFP sued Google for displaying its photos and article excerpts on Google's news site without the French news agency's consent". Google had ranked 11 among other news webs sites. It seems that Yahoo only has about 15- 20 editorals in its news room. Another graet thing about Yahoo is it sends people to other web sites besides theirs. One such as CNN. I personally like Yahoo better when ever I need to research anything I look at Yahoo and never really need to look at Google because I usually find the information I need onYahoo.
