Word: yahoos
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Tang Haisong imagined that the toughest part of his Internet start-up would be getting the forms approved by Beijing's fossilized bureaucracy. But that was nothing compared with what the baseball-capped chairman of Etang.com faced when he began hiring for his company, which aims to become a Yahoo for China's youth. Good managers were even harder to find than efficient bureaucrats. "In terms of Internet technology, China is only five years behind the West," says Tang, who graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1998. "But in management expertise, we're at least two decades behind...
...gives you what you need," said my pal Maryanne. "It doesn't give you a bunch of garbage," seconded Unmesh, who was tired of wading through irrelevant listings on other search sites. Even better, the buzz was backed up with awards from computer trades like PC Magazine, Yahoo!, Internet Life...
...love at first search. Unlike popular favorites Yahoo, Excite and Lycos, which have morphed into monstrous slicer-dicer portals offering everything from daily horoscopes to free e-mail, Google does only one thing--search--and does it spectacularly. Whether I'm looking for a home remedy for sinusitis or trying to find a long-lost friend online, it has an uncanny knack for locating what I want...
...Lycos are the places to go. Altavista also lets you search in 25 languages and has a handy translation feature. Hotbot is great for advanced users who want to fine-tune their searches by everything from date ranges to file types. And for broad searches of, say, exotic birds, Yahoo's orderly directories help focus your thinking into manageable subtopics. But for everyday queries, make your life easy: just go to Google.com...
www.yahoo.com: Eventually, I caved. I went to Yahoo, looked up Buchanan, and found the official website at www.buchananreform.org. "Oh yeah," I thought. "He's in the Reform Party now." After all this, though, the real deal was pretty anticlimactic--all about OPEC and China policy. Now if only Buchanan had a position on clowns...