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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Google Phone is a “Go” for Launch; Yahoo Go Isn’t
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RT @sazbean: Yahoo Go Is A No Go @techcrunch - http://bit.ly/3VOSvn 11/22/2009 |
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Yahoo! Go is dead. Tried to love it. Alas... http://bit.ly/2UeEOu 11/20/2009 |
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#Yahoo stellt das mobile Portal Yahoo! Go ein. http://bit.ly/3VOSvn 11/18/2009 |
Google Phone is a “Go” for Launch; Yahoo Go Isn’t
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... that Google is planning a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January.
Man, there are going to be a lot of deflated Droid owners come January, if this all comes true. Which makes me wonder if Android is so new, that users will hold back from buying a phone, until they see what new hardware is on the horizon–effectively creating a catch 22 situation.
Meanwhile, back at the Yahoo batcave, Yahoo Go is being shuttered:
Dear Yahoo! Go user,
Yahoo! Go will be discontinued on ...
Google Branded Phone a Reality
ClickZ News Blog —
... stories of note from around the Web:
The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon
TechCrunch
Google-branded phone to be sold directly through retailers. Will be produced by a major manufacturer and available in early 2010.
Microsoft, Yahoo Poised to Sign Search Deal
AllThingsD
Once official deal is signed, the only barrier to its implementation will be regulatory approval.
Yahoo Go to be Shut Down
TechCrunch
Once a mainstay of Yahoo's ...
Yahoo! puts a stop to its Go mobile service
Download Squad —
... phone, plus a few different iPhone apps, Yahoo! simply has no reason to keep working on Go.
Go hasn't been updated in the past year, so current users probably saw this coming (or already have newer phones).
The official date on the headstone for Yahoo! Go is January 12, 2010. In the meantime, the team working on Go has been reassigned to improving Yahoo!'s mobile site. Other Yahoo! mobile properties include iPhone apps for Flickr and Yahoo! Finance.
[via TechCrunch] Yahoo! puts a stop to its Go mobile service originally appeared on ...
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish (Yahoo!)
Zatz Not Funny! —
... modern web search. But I’ve been using Yahoo Mail nearly exclusively since the late 90s (never mind those two years of Hotmail and Mac.com experimentation and despite grabbing a Gmail account 11/04).
As changing homes is quite disruptive and I do quite like the ad-free Yahoo Mail Plus UI ($20/yr), I’ve tried to be patient while Google has run laps around around the schizophrenic Yahoo. (Who else would kill the #1 web photo sharing site? And plenty of other initiatives I previously relied on.) But I’ve had enough. ...
