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January 25, 2006

Yahoo! is number two and that's OK

Y3 Yahoo! announced that they were quite comfortable with being second (to Google), causing a stir among bloggers. Who wants to be number 2? In an attempt to explain what they really meant, they released a statement on their blog describing their strategy. Is it OK to be the best but number two in "market share"?

Yahoo has been focusing on releasing some cool tools and in terms of their aggregating and delivering content outside of just links, I believe they are way ahead of the competition. The problem here is PR and as pointed out by Micro Persuasion, Yahoo! doesn't do a great job in addressing the blogosphere storm on this issue.

- Paul Herring

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