Yahoo Still Considers Itself a Contender

From PC World: Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's senior vice president of labs and search strategy made remarks in a Monday press conference indicating its intent to keep kicking. Aside from rolling out changes in their search, web mail, and instant messaging products, Yahoo execs also stated that they still consider Microsoft and Google competitors and have every intention of continuing to do battle.

During the press conference Raghavan also said its not Yahoo's goal to battle mano y mano y mano with Google and Bing for a share of the search market, but that it strives to be the portal through which users access search, mail, content, and other web resources.

News flash: the web portal concept was already done. Yahoo was one of the leaders of the web portal charge that more or less helped novice users ween off of spoon-fed Internet providers like America Online and venture out into the wild Internet without having their hands held. The Internet audience has matured beyond the portal.

Of course, Google is experiencing its share of success by providing a diverse plethora of Web-based tools, and iGoogle seems to be its attempt at providing a portal-like experience that ties some its other products and services together (although I think Google could do a much better job of providing more intuitive links to those products and services...but that's another story).

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