[ NY Times] Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust
August 25th, 2009
Great article in the Sunday NY Times about Yahoo Finance vs Google Finance.
Two good quotes:
“In our research with users, we found that the more information that was displayed on the page, the greater the anxiety.”
“Yahoo understands that a free finance site prospers by drawing less from the world of mathematics and more from the world of entertainment, informing just enough to satisfy users without setting off an anxiety attack.”
GOOGLE has an outsize image as the deft master of information. Its superior technology seems to pitilessly grind up its rivals. But Google’s domination in search has proved hard for it to match in some information domains…