Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Yahoo! on the rise.

Google is the darling of internet lovers everywhere. First they gave us a search engine that delivered what we were looking for, then they gave us Image Search, Google News, maps, Gmail, and more -- not to mention the addictive Google Labs.

But old Yahoo has been around the block and back, and they weren't about to just roll over and take it, as they became nothing more than the search engine of moms who still signed on to AOL.

Check out the new Yahoo, and question whether loyalty to Google -- which becomes more like Microsoft everyday -- will be hip for much longer:

Upcoming.org: Evite is for ninnies. Upcoming.org is a social calendar for all of your events that shareable and syndicate-able.
del.icio.us: In case you hadn't heard, this one's a Yahoo property too now, and it's pretty much the hottest thing on the internet. Browser bookmarks will go the way of gopher -- so saith I.
Flickr: I never knew online photo sharing could be so satisfying. Yahoo snatched this one up too -- smart move. It could make services like Snapfish and Ofoto obselete. Once you try it, you'll never go back.
Yahoo Maps (Beta): Well, it's a lot like Google Maps, but there are some additional features to try to win some converts. And maybe their driving directions won't suck as much as Google's.
Widgets: With their purchase of the already wildly popular Konfabulator, Yahoo is bringing the mini-apps ("widgets") native to Mac OS Tiger to everyone -- for free (unlike Konfabulator).
Farechase: Yahoo must be so pleased it thought of something so useful before Google did. This tool searching dozens of travel sites and airline sites at once to find the lowest fare with one little search. (If I were Google, I'd be thinking long and hard about buying Kayak.)

Yahoo! did not sponsor this. Honestly.

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