Business Week in its current issue has listed 'Top 25 companies' which are good at Innovations. And guess what? Yahoo! is not there. Quite rightly so. Though Yahoo! was one of the first companies that popularized the e-mail communication, I believe they have become quite stagnant in the recent years and they didn't do anything about it.
It is pretty sad by the fact that they had all the chance in world in changing the experience Users can have when they use their e-mail software, but they fell terribly short of it. I haven't seen any changes in their e-mail software until sometime ago when they introduced a beta software which again made me feel like using 'Outlook'. Isn't there anything new they can think of?
Well.. the reason why I started writing this post is for a different reason altogether. My sister sent me her engagement photos thru Yahoo! mail. At first, I thought of downloading all the files to my hard disk. But I had no option to do it.
They should all the photos as thumbnail and they had a link saying 'View' next to it. I thought clicking that will actually get me to see the picture in Full size. Guess what? It went to a different page saying 'No virus detected'.. 'Download attachment'.. Why would a company such big as this write a software so dumb and it is pretty obvious..
The story doesn't end there. They don't have one but two softwares to manage photos. 1. Yahoo! photos and 2. flickr. But when I searched the page for the first time, I couldn't find a link to save all my photos into something. Obviously, I was skimming around the page. Then there it was.. a link at the bottom of the page in very small letters to save all your photos in Yahoo!. I don't blame them very much on this but if you give a service to the users why not let them know about it in a bit more obvious way then hiding it somewhere..
I believe they have in pipeline to integrate Yahoo! photos and flickr. If not, they are wasting so much money in managing two softwares and they are restricting people from getting a good 'photo' experience and it is very cruel.
Here is a thought. I don't think Microsoft can do a bigger change in Yahoo! if it is to buy it. I don't see anything interesting that might come up in the partnership. Instead, if Google is to buy Yahoo!, then that is a big change. People has to do in what they are good at and merging / selling should also happen in the same idea.. atleast I believe so.
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