Yahoo and Alibaba

Yahoo has been losing market and business rapidly due to Google eating away its market. It has almost taken over the search, email and messenger based application for which Yahoo was very popular once. Today, although Google stands ahead of Yahoo and behind Microsoft it is still faster growing than both its counterparts due to innovation and technology.

The economy in China is doing well. China has in its recent years reached financial stability. This is due to the fact that there is a high level of domestic demand. Because of this, many companies around the world begin to invest in the Chinese market. China is also one of the fastest growing when it comes to Information Technology and has been able to attract companies such as Google and even Microsoft. It has been forecasted that the Internet industry in China is expected to increase at a rate of about ten percent within the next five years. This is great news because Google will be able to benefit.

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Yahoo! enjoys success because its quality control is high, providing users with high quality links without all the redundant listings that plague so many of the search engines, such as Lycos. Yahoo! constitutes more of a directory, not a search engine, making it possible to look up information within categories. In many of the search engines, a search responds to the whims of the particular algorithm used by the engine and depends on how well the pages match the search engines criteria, regardless of the actual real life relevancy of the page and site content. In contrast, Yahoo! uses people instead of a computer algorithm to ensure that sites displayed appropriately, only lists valid sites, and generally only the home page of a site.

6 Google quickly rose to prominence................................................................................................................................ 6 Other search engines have struggled to compete with Google .........................................................................................7 Google differs from its competitors ................................................................................................................................ 7 Other companies began to use Google for their search technology ..............................................................................7 Google’s prominent position is reflected in its market share .............................................................................................8 Google’s market share is largest in Europe ...................................................................................................................8 Google’s revenues come largely from advertising...........................................................................................................10 Google introduced AdWords ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Conclusions......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Can Google

Google Search is the most popular search engine in the world, and just by that has an enormous advantage in information markets. Google has unprecedented access to what people are thinking about at any given moment, information which is extremely valuable to advertisers and marketers. Google also is also an extremely well established company, with its massive revenue allowing it to support its extremely robust infrastructure. Google has massive and modern data centers all over the world, and continues to invest into more infrastructure, including data centers and the new Google Fiber in the United States. Googles massive revenue also allows it to branch off into more innovative pursuits without having to worry too much about funding. Google can pursue expensive and difficult projects that generate little to no revenue for a very long time, if the company believes that the investment will be worth it in the end. Examples of this include Google's Self driving cars, and the aforementioned mentioned Google

Case felt that the vertical integration of the two companies would promote synergy. They believed Time Warner could gain from AOL’s experience and brand recognition in the new Internet industry while AOL would benefit from Time Warner’s cable infrastructure. The two CEOs noted that both companies had comparable values that would mesh well together. Both sides had been interested in merging with another large company in a related industry. AOL “had been plotting for months about how to use its high-priced stock to make a big acquisition. The company hired the investment bank Salomon Smith Barney… to consider various targets.” AOL was in talks with eBay and Electronic Arts while Time Warner was discussing a merger with Yahoo. Levin and Time Warner felt that they had transform their company in order to be competitive in the fast paced Internet age. AOL feared that if they did not move quickly to offer high-speed cable Internet their market share would vanish.

I really like that Google, Yahoo, and Baidu pushes for people to be open, Baidu allowing users to enter discusses with other people that is searching about the same topic this creates an open mind for people to express themselves. Google pushed the limits after being blocked out and never gave up on creating a successful search engine in China and still is today. ISPs will help us in the long run and Google, Yahoo, and Baidu were just the start of something big.

With competition between Gmail and AOL Email, Yahoo’s extensive features, reliability and security are what made it a top contender. In order to continue being a top contender, Yahoo needed to fulfill and grow on these characteristics. The company was successful in doing so for 18 years, until September of 2016 when they publicly announced the shortfall of these expectations.

Alibaba is another key stakeholder in this deal. The 384 million shares of Alibaba Yahoo invested now worth almost $32 billion. After the deal with Verizon, Yahoo still keeps its 15 percent stake in Alibaba, which has been making tremendous profits for Yahoo for many years. If Yahoo sold the Alibaba stake outright, it would incur huge tax bill so Yahoo is aiming at how to minimize their tax bill. One possible method is letting Alibaba purchase the remaining asset of the renamed Yahoo company as a whole. Good news is that Alibaba has shown interests in purchasing back the

Founded just before the turn of the millennium in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba Group has to date become the largest online retail website worldwide in the planet, its total transactions surpassing the sum of both Amazon and eBay’s (Erickson, 2013). The report explains its business and operation model and market strategy, before moving to explore the reasons for Alibaba Group’s success such as its established market share in the large market of Mainland China and its efforts to promote the perception of the reliability and security of e-commerce. Comprising of its future plans in logistics improvement, expansion into developing nations, integration with social networks, venture into mobile

Alibaba Company is the largest online business in the consumer e-commerce with online payments, cloud computing, and business-to-business market places that reach to users of the internet in countries and regions not less than two hundred and forty. The company culture is based on the shared vision, mission, and value system. These act as the subsidiaries and the cornerstone of the Alibaba Company. The company focuses much on its core values that are the customers, cooperation and teamwork, passion, integrity, change embracing and employees honoring their job.

Yahoo was an early success due to a combination of factors such as timing, hard work, and a good understanding of Web surfer’s tastes and needs.. In early 1995, Net mania was just flowering. It was a great time to be a young entrepreneur with an Internet idea. Dave Faldo and Jerry Yang saw a consumer need for classifying and differentiating web sights. Resting the urge to automate this process, Yahoo’s founders instead chose to manually perform this search, reviewing and classifying roughly 1000 sights a day. This approach combined with their decision to offer a free service lead to early success.

Yahoo! Inc. is one of the oldest and most well-known Internet content providers. Yahoo! Inc. offers one of the most diverse Internet websites. It is believed that by expanding Yahoo!'s services and expanding broadband access, Yahoo! customers will stay on the website and spend increasing amounts of time and money. Yahoo! Inc's biggest obstacle lies in its competition in the form of

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