Slashdot: YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine 

This is truly sad: Yahoo is slowly disappearing in the mists of insignificance. I have always loved Yahoo – and it’s (too) many free services were often far ahead of anyone else (including Google’s great free stuff).

Yahoo for example had free eMail and Calendar – and a  great Desktop Synching Tool long before GMail was even on the drawing board. The same is true for Yahoo Groups in comparison to Google Groups.

But Yahoo has also the strange talent of fucking itself up.

The interfaces were often overdone – and there was always too much advertising as well. And there was always a serious lack of “cooleness” and “buzz” surrounding Yahoo’s tools.

It’s now just a matter of time before they die, since all desperate attempts to fix itself haven’t helped.