Yahoo: Outsource Search To Google, Cut Staff 25%, Bernstein Advises

Barrons reports

Lindsay’s advice: outsource search to Google, and cut staff by as much as 25%. He thinks the company could boost 2008 operating income by $565 million, and EPS by 24 cents, by outsourcing search; cutting a quarter of the staff could add another $658 million in operating income, and another 28 cents in EPS, he figures. He also contends Yahoo needs to restructure its display advertising business to boost growth to the industry average; if they can do that, he writes, the company can add another $376 million in revenue and 15 cents in EPS.

This is the best thing Yahoo can do now. Yahoo can quit the search war and Microsoft will take care of Google.

Yahoo Mash

Yahoo Mash is a new approach to social networking that brings your friends together and keeps things interesting. If at all Yahoo can clone some of the features of Myspace, Facebook and Orkut, it can easily position itself in the Top 5 social networking websites in the Internet World.

Yahoo Mash comes with lot of modules like Flickr RSS, Ego Boost, Common Friends, MyMoshLog2, Blog Module (RSS 2.0), Asteroids, Astrology, PimpMyPet, Hover, Kaleidescope, Guestbook, and My Stuff to play with. People can also edit each others page.

Yahoo Mash is invite-only right now. Please drop your email in the comments section to get an invite.

The last two Yahoo application which impressed me are Yahoo Pipes and Yahoo Mash. Keep it up Yahoo!

Thanks to Ashish of PluGGd.in, for sending me an invitation.

Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo

On the Internet, as in life, men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities.

More at WebProNews.

Yahoo Green

Yahoo is urging users to become more environment friendly and tackle the problem of Global Warming through its website Yahoo Green!

According to Wikipedia

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.

Global average air temperature near the Earth's surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes, "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations," which leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes have probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950, but a cooling effect since 1950.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including sea level rise, and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. There may also be changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, though it is difficult to connect specific events to global warming. Other effects may include changes in agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the exact degree of climate change expected in the future, and how changes will vary from region to region around the globe. There is ongoing political and public debate regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at combating greenhouse gas emissions.

Yahoo Mail Offers Unlimited Storage

Yahoo has announced that it is giving away unlimited storage accounts for all its web based email users as a tribute to Yahoo Mail's 10th anniversary. Yahoo is desperately trying to retain its lead in web based email. Recently many users are switching to Gmail as its is simple, faster and offers much more storage and options than Yahoo Mail.

An average user cannot even reach the limit of Gmail. There is nothing like unlimited storage. Just a matter of time till we find the unofficial cap for the email storage. Gmail is a killer application. It can catch spam with such an accuracy that you can almost never get a spam mail in your inbox. The spam filters of Yahoo Mail and Live Hotmail are very much inferior to Gmail. Gmail offers free POP mail and forwarding whereas Yahoo offers it for a fee. Yahoo Mail interface sucks. I suggest Yahoo to better concentrate on improving user interface rather than offering these useless unlimited storage crap. I love Gmail's grouping of emails into a thread and also tagging feature.

Here is the link to CNET comparison of Gmail vs Yahoo Mail vs Live Hotmail.

Gmail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo Mail

TechCrunch offers a nice comparison chat between Yahoo Mail, Live Hotmail and Gmail.Image Source : TechCrunch