I truly don't understand how Yahoo still exists. How have they survived this long?
It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Charts just show up at the top of the results page but there's no dedicated site anymore.
Does anyone know the inside ballgame on this one?
You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.
Compare Google Street View with Apple's "look around" feature. Night and day. To be fair I haven't looked at street view recently, and Google's coverage is better for now.
Or Gmail spam filtering... I can't even begin to fathom what they are thinking, whoever is in charge of that. I mean really... they have the privilege of working at Google? And... really, that's the level of effort and quality they give us, after 20 years of time with the problem?
Yes I know it can be a hard problem, and an arms race, but the level to which they are utterly falling down with good signals in the data, like the fact that I explicitly signed up for and sometimes read and reply to a mailing list, is mind boggling.
In Google Maps on Android, the status bar is now transparent, and important information like clock, battery status, connection quality and incoming messages are now drawn on top of the map. I'm sure that looks great in a presentation but now those little icons have little, and varying contrast and are hard to decipher.
In Youtube in the browser, I have autoplay disabled. Every time I log into Youtube (after a reboot), autoplay is enabled again.
The strategy positions Yahoo as an “amplification brand,” amplifying the things that matter, helping to “amplify you.”
So, umm, I guess I have no idea what they do.