My Yahoo Size Goes To ∞

Thanks Jeff for sharing your thoughts. I had a feeling infinite storage is only for the people who won’t reach it. Still, it gives a feel of convenience.

I am a Google addict person I’ll tell you the truth, but there is nothing perfect. I rarely use Yahoo!, Google is doing most what I need and it’s better to have central place for everything (ofcourse risk becomes higher as well). What I loved from Yahoo recently is:

1- Yahoo Mail improvements
2- Yahoo Messenver Pc to Phone service. Google Talk will soon follow them I think. I didn’t like the way they try to push their toolbar and extra stuff
3- Yahoo Answers.

Jeff: It starts to get embarrassing when comments are more thorough than the post itself. Very helpful at the same time :)

First on the note Yahoo have failed to achieve it’s goals, I’m not sure if this is a reason or not, but one thing I like and I think gives power to Google is that they usually don’t just run to clone what people have. They have their own vision and way of doing things. It gives a lot more freedom when you do what you want not what others are doing. Typical opposite example is Microsoft. Which is why it takes soo long until they release a WOW thing.

As for Google and no evil, ask me sometime back I’d say Google are second after angels. I will start first by good examples of no evil from Google:

1- Do not attack competitor. At least not directly. Gates made negative comments about Google in interviews while Ballmer talked to about Google insane growth strategy at Stanford graduation ceremony. Another bad example I didn’t expect was when you search Yahoo for Google, they have something like this:

if(query == “google”){
echo “Are you trying to search the web. Try Yahoo”
}

Special search box if and only if you search for Google. They removed it eventually.

2- In most cases, you can export your data and go somewhere else, just like Eric promised. So they don’t lock the customer.

Now, as for the dark side of the Google force, I think it will only be revealed when you start doing business with them. Adsense can be very successful, or not based on your site content and traffic. Most people writing about adsense sucks are probably disappointed bloggers, as with blogs I see it doesn’t perform well unless you are writing about hot topic with hot ads. People click on travel, celebrity ads more than they click on New web editor ad for example. But that’s bad performance not evil spirit.

What I came to see as really unfair is how Google judge and punish AdSense publishers for fraud clicks that come from their site. Maybe I could do it once or twice to get $0.5 from my site, but a whole flood of clicks is a definite attack on me no way I would want this to happen. Google immediately would send termination notification for you and you can only appeal once, many times the appeal is denied.

As I am not the one providing the service, Google should handle the fraud clicks and all. But for small startups, Google overlooks them and see the best way is to close their account. If this is legitimate, then I guess it would be logic any click fraud on Google it self should cause Google Ads to go away for good and knock them out of business. I also don’t think they would do it for large accounts like YouTube now for example.

I’ve read some stories about banning accounts and they are terrible. Makes you inconfident to build business case around it.

(Did you notice this should go as a new post!)