Yahoo! Maps, Bing and Google… Oh My!

This gem was shared by Marc Prioleau.

Internet firm Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) may replace its Geo-Platform with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG), a move that could reduce its operating costs by about 2 percent to 5 percent, according to an analyst at Global Equities Research.

Yahoo Geo-platform is lagging behind both Google and Microsoft Geo-Platform,” analyst Trip Chowdhry wrote in a note to clients.

Adena Schutzberg cuts to the chase:

There are so many errors in the IB Times article discussing the note, errors I fear are from the original note, I am very skeptical.

My Grandmother, bless her heart, always told me; If you don’t know what you are talking about, keep your mouth shut!”. Clearly that doesn’t apply to analysts”. To be fair, he did call Salesforce.com a modern day Visi-Calc”. Wait, that wasn’t right…


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May 19, 2011