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Finally defeated by Relevancy? Or is that just Irrelevant?

A blog about an Email and Search company turned community hub-spot, and how simple rectangle will always rule search by itself.

What is Yahoo if not a search engine? In my inexperienced whimsical mind, Yahoo’s greatest reason for prominence in the internet world has been its email and Aol-style “Home-base” brand services. I suppose models such as these eventually allowed what we now call Web 2.0 to develop.

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Becoming a hub for email was key to many of the early internet Mongols, Yahoo certainly made their name there and built on that reputation with a continued effort to cater to entertaining their email clientele.

As many of us know on the client side, if it aint broke don’t fix it – excusing the slang, the point here is once we find something that works [and for free at that] it becomes second nature. As long as it continues to solve our problems while remaining cutting edge, our loyalty probably wont be tested.

Now maybe that rule doesn’t apply to all verticals, and it certainly isn’t the same for modern products/services as it was for some of the earlier “wild-wild-west” types (as far as competition and user expectations being factors), but the “Mongols” are still “Mongoling” on because of this dynamic. I wonder how many have Yahoo.com set as their browser homepage?