Yahoo! Never had visited the site since long!

Hmm!! I am an internet freak since the days of my college. I never had to get any reasons to get to the internet parlor. I remember going to the café since the time, internet was on dial up and it was a whooping Rs. 50/- per hour.

Then, I used to go to the internet to mainly Chat! And Yahoo Chat was the only thing I knew. Coz I used to majorly chat with my my sis in Sydney. You will not believe, she had I seldom talk even now when we are together on face to face, but we exchange a lot of conversation on chat and on mails. They used to be this mIRC Chat which was quite famous, but never got to try that though.

That is when I used to visit Yahoo site. I also have a yahoo.com account which people do not get it now. They get a .co.in or .co.uk stuffs. Even now, I just login to yahoo chat jus to talk with her, if not, all my other frnds, pals, mom, bro and my sweetheart its only on gtalk. Coz the interface supports the text chat and I somehow like the plain text chat and plain smileys rather than the animated ones.

I was jus reading articles on the Microsoft bid of $40+ billion to acquire Yahoo and eventually got to the yahoo.com site after a pretty long time (3/4 years). I was doing some generic searches on tech content and otherwise to see how efficient the search engine is. Its pretty OK infact. I found that the edge that google has got on yahoo is because, it supports plain text and hence, the search is faster. They make it more obvious specifying the number of records found in so and so amount of search time. But Yahoo! On the other side, though reports the search results, there are the display ads that come thru too. If I were to do the same search from home, I would have ended up cursing yahoo for the sheer amount of time it takes. But the search results were of good quality. Infact, I found a couple of results to be more specific than that on google when I compared them on my dual monitor screens.

Just then, a thought struck my mind. Lets see what yahoo is got for the Indian community. I quickly typed yahoo.co.in and instantly, the news, everything was updated and quite recent when compared to the ndtv.com side by side. I was just seeing the other links to Finance, Games, Cricket, Dainik Jagar.. and I happen to see “Directions”. A google map fan that I’m; wanted to explore this and confirm on my decision that google maps rocks! So, I opened. And I wanted to check Bangalore. Typed in “Forum Mall, Bangalore”. I expected it not to give me a proper result (Coz long back when I had seen it, I was not impressed).

I was awestruck when it came up. I then thought, lemme see if this gives you directions and clicked on “To here” and typed in “Mahalakshmipuram Layout”. I was dumbstruck when it actually came up! Oh my God!! The one-ways and the traffic was so rightly gauged and it showed it I guess more precisely than I would jot it on a piece of paper!!



I think this is one of the very few sites on the internet, I think I will not be wrong if I say, this is the 1st site on the internet that I have come across which actually could show directions in India. Google Maps fails!!!!

That is what prompted me to quickly blog it as I wanted to shout to the world, and join the voice of many who are praying that the Microsoft bid not be honored by Yahoo and yahoo continues to excel in what it is doing.

From now on, my search is on Yahoo. If I can help support yahoo to be the best and compete against google, I’m for it. Yahoo is virtually the mother of all internet companies. One of the 1st that came up. I would certainly suggest Yahoo chief/co-founder Jerry Yang, to stay on, and we are here to get yahoo up there again.

Go on Yahoo!!!!!!!