Industry practice huh? Does gtalk do any of the above-mentioned settings invasions?

Industry-wide practice VS Industry-leading practice

This may be part of the reason, YHOO is only $30 and GOOG is $500. Go figure.

Hopefully Google takes the high road here and doesn’t respond in kind.

I don’t think Google will ever do this. If only because it promises “Not to be evil.” This kinda seems slightly evil to me.

No, not like a ghost – but “boo” as in “bad move Yahoo”. I hate tactics that try to switch my defaults. Mess with my search engine of choice, and you’re rm’d from my system.

Dreadful practices – and as for it being standard practice in the industry? If you count the ‘badware’ pushers as industry, then yes – it is. Even Microsoft tells you clearly what each option is going to do.

i agree with all the comments here—customer trust needs to be valued, not stomped on.

anyway, i would like to point out that per-share price does not matter – total market value that multiplies it by number of shares does.

yahoo is worth $38 billion ($28/share) google is worth $150 billion ($495/share) berkshire hathaway is worth $165 billion ($106,700 /share)

share price is only psychological and relates to behavioral economics. share splits yield a 5% rise, for no fundamental reason than perceived “affordability”

thank you class – finance 101 is done for today.

yet another reason to stay with google

As long as white collars try and run the Internet, we will never really see its potential. Hijacking is just bad, and sad.

Dirty Trick!

Why do they bring down people’s trust like that..

about google… refer to one of my favorite bloggers… Danah Boyd’s article a practice broken

But anyway, a confusing process, seemingly deceptive in intent, is a sign of desperation or possibly malice- simply bad customer service. Company’s with bad customer service don’t usually do to well… I think?

Yahoo! seem to be getting naughtier

I hated this when I did my Yahoo Messenger update, and removed all those junks immediately. It is disappointing to see Yahoo doing this. I thought “only” Microsoft does that.

流氓行为

I do agree that this is a nasty way to fool the novice user and hijack his browser settings but then again, I also know that IE has been doing this for ages !

that is stupid and smart. The stupid thing is that some people hate behavior like that. the smart thing is some people do not mind, especially people who use computer as a tool, they do not really understand what yahoo’ve done, they just simply accepted everything that is not a virus.

This is one of the many things that really get me angry while on the internet. Companies using behavior like that is 100% inappropriate, especially a company like Yahoo, a company who many see as a “good” company. I didn’t know about this until I read this here. This is a reason I don’t use IE anymore as well!

This just goes to show the difference in corporate culture at places like Yahoo vs. Google. We’ve all felt it for a very long time and maybe just not been able to pinpoint what doesn’t feel right about certain companies. It’s their entire culture which comes out to show itself in actions like this.

This happened to me. I could NOT get rid of the Yahoo redirection. I used Hijackthis, malware, spyware programs, to no avail. I had to uninstall Internet Explorer 7.0, re-install 6.0 and NO, I don’t have YAHOO MESSENGER – I switched it all to Trillian. I suggest you check this out, http://www.trillian.cc/. And the best thing, you can use it with Tor and other http overides.

It really chaps my hide when ANY software package sets preferences to what they think they should be. (Are you listening, Microsoft?)

And they are supposedly trying to endear themselves to more people! Nice way of going about it.

”..the updater associates all web links with Internet Explorer”

That’s reason enough to avoid Yahoo Messenger for me!

Its obvious Yahoo has been losing big chunks of market share (revenue) to Google. But, trying to win it back at the expense of their customers is flat out wrong. This strategy is simply about generating short term advertising revenue, but alienating your customer base in the process makes no sense! Ahem, is it really that hard to do the right thing?