GoogleTube vs YahAoL!?

Posted 1 year, 12 months ago at 5:25 pm. 3 comments
Posted in AOL, Yahoo.

I’m not entirely sure where this buzz came about, it may have been invented by BloggingStocks, but apparently Yahoo should buy AOL? Recently we all should know that Youtube was bought by Google. A little surprising just because with all the major deals with TV and Music companies, you’d think one of them would have jumped ontop of it. This gives GoogleTube a huge advantage in the online video market, and basically you can say Google is turning into Microsoft. I’m not entirely sure what happens from this deal, apart from the fact that the creators become instantly rich, and Google’s market share gets bigger and bigger. With the three media giants, Google, MSN, and Yahoo, something is bound to happen to stir things up. This is where "the littleblog post that could," comes up with a great idea… Yahoo should by AOL to compete against Google. Well it seems fantastical atleast but I won’t be too happy if that happens…

I often view Yahoo and AOL as opposites. Yahoo works one way (ask to add to buddylist/chatrooms for free/strong groups with limited features/no strong sense of the "Yahoo" community).. Aol works this way (add anyone you want/chatrooms for paying or verified/non existant groups/strong community since everyone is new). Now if you put those together you’ll get a whole mess of confused AOL users who have no Idea how to use Yahoo, or Happy Yahoo users who can talk to people on AIM. Personally I think from this deal, AOL would lose out, and it would probably have to intergrate itself into Yahoo. 

The deal would put AOL in good financial state, but from the community aspect, its going to be too big. Yahoo is freedom based, while AOL has Nazi TOS, and when these two communities combine all the newb language you’ve grown to hate will start flying everywhere. People will get upset at AOL as it does nothing against Yahoo Users. AOL community leaders begin to dissapate into this one unified "Yahoo." This  omnipresent entity that acts without thought and judgement and suspends a group / a community / a person without reason.  Can AOL user handle the pornographic free spirited hippies of Yahoo?

No… Yahoo is a great company but their ideas of limiting the potential of their groups communities left a permanent scar in my heart towards them. When they did things like… "oh your group only has 10mb we took off attachement"…"when you try to upload images it isn’t full sized"…"our software is bloated as hell and we want to make sure it crashes"… its been hectic trying to like them. Now that Google came along and changed the standards email and groups back to the way they were, Yahoo has been Web2.0fying themselves.

Now Who Is My Choice pick to buy AOL?
MSN ofcourse. I can see great dreams there.. :\
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