The Lonesome Road

Over the last one year, Yahoo! and Google have been on a big buying spree - each seeking to pick up products and technologies that fit in with the image they are trying to create.

For instance, Google latched on the the blogging fad (well, fad is the wrong term to describe it, but that’s a topic for another post) and bought Blogger. Then in order to make photo uploading simpler, they also bought Picasa and made it free. Results are looking good.

A month or so back, Yahoo! responded by buying one of my favourite photo sites - Flickr. This was in line with their new photomail philosophy - and a good buy considering the large number of subscribers Flickr had. And then came the announcement from Konfabulator that they too had been bought out by Yahoo!. Once again, what used to cost USD 19.99/- is now free. Oh - and for all of you who bought Konfabulator 2.0 - don’t worry, they’re even giving a refund.

So, where is this going to end? Both these search engines are now in the race for video. All I can say is that good times are rolling for the end users.

Rock on!