Yahoo! – Where is your quality/editing team?

February 25, 2010 by admin | 4 Comments

Yahoo was the first website I saw, when I surfed the web for the first time, I Yahoo -ed. Till very recently, i was still in love with the content Yahoo provided but this love affair with Yahoo is on a fast decline. And, believe me it is not a facebook or a Twitter that is responsible for it. It is not even Google. It is Yahoo itself.

One of the first things which I do everyday when I switch on my computer, is to check my Gmail/Google Apps ID and open the Yahoo homepage. The content provided by Yahoo has always been much more niche than a Google News which is just an aggregation.

However, off late I have some really bad experiences with Yahoo and I have mailed them the same. Here are two instances which I gathered within an hour of thinking that I am going to write against one of my favorite Internet companies.

: Yahoo! -- Where is your quality team? Where is your editing team?

Is this the way cricket records should be put up. The above is a screenshot of the URL

http://cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/story/cricket.indiaabroad.com/list-tendulkars-top-odi-innings-20100224/

Now Check this for English.

: Come On Yahoo! I cannot take this anymore.

The above is a screen-shot of http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20100225/1271/ten-shah-rukh-wants-to-overtake-tharoor_1.html

Does Yahoo really care about the quality of content it is giving out? Who edits Yahoo’s content before it is put up on the website? Is there a quality team in place? Are your employees not motivated enough? Is your content just a copy-paste from somewhere else, without any regard given to the quality?

I have been a long time Yahoo lover. But, if this is what Yahoo serves me, I would soon have to say R.I.P Yahoo.

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yahoo cricket slideshow does not work on chrome. i mailed them 10 days back. but no change yet. i use chrome as the default browser. but just for watching a slideshow i have to take the pain of starting some other browser. that really sucks.
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yahoo cricket slideshow does not work on chrome. i mailed them 10 days back. but no change yet. i use chrome as the default browser. but just for watching a slideshow i have to take the pain of starting some other browser. that really sucks.
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Exactly. I have done the same. Giving feedback to yahoo. But either it is lack of motivation in the yahoo’s quality team, or they just think Customer’s don’t care. Sorry to say, but they won’t survive long enough like this
http://microreviews.org/ Arkid Mitra

Exactly. I have done the same. Giving feedback to yahoo. But either it is lack of motivation in the yahoo's quality team, or they just think Customer's don't care. Sorry to say, but they won't survive long enough like this

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