Google and Yahoo!
History of the two companies
Yahoo was created in January 1994 by, Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Stanford graduate students. They created a website called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” It was a page with links to other websites created in a hierarchical manner. In April 1994, it was renamed as ‘Yahoo!’. “Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word’s general definition, “rude, unsophisticated, and uncouth.” (Diffen.com, 2013) By April 1996, Yahoo went public raising $33.8 million dollars, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. Started as a search engine the company went on to many businesses in communications, and e-mail taking over rocket mail and making it Yahoo! Mail. (Diffen.com, 2013)
The company now provides information on stock markets, blog space and paid hosting and free utilities. It has incorporated all available services into its offerings and is researching more options. Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and became an incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. It made the debut as a company in August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, and was the best search engine -Google with the largest market share. Google went on to add other internet services, which was the philosophy behind acquiring Orkut and You Tube. (Diffen.com, 2013)
The success of Google was by selling advertisements associated with the help of keywords. Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and clicks. (Diffen.com, 2013)
What do they have in common?
Both are internet-based companies and their base is the popular search engines to which they have added more and more features. The companies are vying with one another in getting the clientele to stick with them. They believe in the volumes generated by the advertisements and also by using of other firms of the paid services. The companies are both into web hosting and cloud services. Additionally Yahoo provides market information and trade results, and Google in turn has free and paid blogging. Both create revenue from the advertisements and participation of the companies and public in their services. Both have extensive research and development networks. They have created tangible assets to back up the progress of the company. Both are public limited companies and are on the NASDQ.
How are the businesses different? This will take some deep digging
Google has grown out of the ‘search engine’ tag, while yahoo still maintains the basic search engine flavour. The differences are in the innovation created by Google over yahoo. Google seems to have expanded the market, and growth rate is determined by the market size which in turn is determined by market demand. And they usually tend to create a ripple cost effect such that the firm must continuously grow just to maintain the current status quo. On the other hand Yahoo can be steady with lesser growth rate if it continues to optimize what it originally was- Its search features.
What are their sales per square foot?
To answer the question, in this case the sq. foot of the holding has no immediate relevance to the revenue generated from the internet, and hence to see their income and profit and profitability the financial statements are viewed first. According to the profit and loss statements, there is Research and Development costs for both companies were similar with yahoo spending 390 millions USD and Google 370 millions as of 2006, with the cash flow. The cash flow as different from 2005 to 2007. (Cybion, n. d.)
“Yahoo’s investing cash remain negative from (821,930) millions USD to (572,502) millions so was Google’s cash been ranged between (3,358,193) millions USD and (6,899,150) millions. These negative values and differences are mostly due to short-term financial investments.” (Cybion, n. d.) Both had invested excessively in U.S. govt debts, and produced large amounts of interest. Both these companies seem thus to share the same financial principles.
Why are they different?
The work philosophy of the companies are different, Google goes with the idea of becoming — everything to every one — with rigid frames of operations and has been the first to enter the cloud computing services. On the other hand Yahoo grows with the demand of the customers and caters to clientele that often have both yahoo and Google accounts. Yahoo still remains the search and e-mail company basically while Google has graduated out of that and has become an information company.
How much per square foot do they pay in rent?
Both companies have their own HQ but have outsourced some of their activities abroad. Rental expenses for these can only be guessed at.
Do they own the land?
The Google Inc. World Headquarters is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkwayv Mountain View, CA 94043 called the Mountain View Googleplex and the owned HQ and subsidiary work places has on-site doctor, free shuttle service, financial planning classes, and frequent holiday parties. (Farfan, 2013)
Provide details on the background / education of their founders and current leaders
Jerry Yang and David Filo, founders of Yahoo were Stanford graduate students. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are PhD holders from at Stanford University and from the same university the need for search engines prompt them to create the corporation. (Diffen.com, 2013)
What was the business philosophy of the founders?
The philosophy of both groups at the time of creating the company was the same: provide a system of searching the internet. Profit motive was absent at the time because they were students and were trying to solve a problem. As the system grew the opportunity converted it into a business system. The difference between both is that the Google founders had a distinct advantage of education over the founders of Yahoo.
What is the business / management philosophy of the current leaders?
While the original idea for both the companies was altruistic, the founders being involved with a public service more than profit, of late the system has changed. Taking the search engines in China, show that all is not well at the international front. The researcher Jiang (2012) says that “Google moved its servers from Mainland China to Hong Kong, Google’s results are equally if not more likely to be inaccessible than Baidu’s, and Baidu’s filtering is much subtler than the Great Firewall’s — GFW wholesale blocking of Google’s results” there is also arbitrary in rendering social realities, and biased toward self-interest. (Jiang, 2012)
Yahoo similarly got into trouble with surveys showing that Yahoo is no longer the world’s homepage — Facebook and/or Google have taken it over. So yahoo must innovate to stay in business. That requires the new board to think in terms of innovation along with the cost factor, and second the marketing and sustaining of the market which again involves cost and product recreation which again is a form of innovation. The important factor is that in firm’s staff vary in their capacities to form, adopt and move these innovations, so winners and losers emerge as inevitable by-products of economic progress. The board should look to creating better job flows and high firm level volatility mirror the restructuring, experimentation and adjustment processes at the centre of Schumpeterian theories.” (Acemoglu; Rogoff; Woodford, 2006)
References
Acemoglu, Daron; Rogoff, Kenneth; Woodford, Michael. (2006) “Volatility and Dispersion
in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded vs. Privately Held Firms” The MIT Press.
Cybion. (n. d.) “Yahoo vs. Google Which strengths & weaknesses emerge from financial accounting analysis” Retrieved 11 April, 2013 from http://www.veille.com/IMG/pdf/Cybion-Yahoo-Google.pdf
Diffen.com. (2013) “History of Yahoo: Differences between Yahoo & Google” Retrieved 11
April, 2013 from http://www.diffen.com/difference/Google_vs_Yahoo
Farfan, Barbara. (2013) “Google, Inc. World Headquarters, U.S. & Global Offices,
Workplace Benefits” Retrieved 11 April, 2013 from http://retailindustry.about.com/od/topusretailcompanies/a/googleworld.htm
Jiang, Min. (2012) “The Business and Politics of Search Engines: A Comparative
Study of Baidu and Google’s Search Results of Internet Events in China” Retrieved 11 April, 2013 from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2027436
Are you busy and do not have time to handle your assignment? Are you scared that your paper will not make the grade? Do you have responsibilities that may hinder you from turning in your assignment on time? Are you tired and can barely handle your assignment? Are your grades inconsistent?
Whichever your reason is, it is valid! You can get professional academic help from our service at affordable rates. We have a team of professional academic writers who can handle all your assignments.
Students barely have time to read. We got you! Have your literature essay or book review written without having the hassle of reading the book. You can get your literature paper custom-written for you by our literature specialists.
Do you struggle with finance? No need to torture yourself if finance is not your cup of tea. You can order your finance paper from our academic writing service and get 100% original work from competent finance experts.
Computer science is a tough subject. Fortunately, our computer science experts are up to the match. No need to stress and have sleepless nights. Our academic writers will tackle all your computer science assignments and deliver them on time. Let us handle all your python, java, ruby, JavaScript, php , C+ assignments!
While psychology may be an interesting subject, you may lack sufficient time to handle your assignments. Don’t despair; by using our academic writing service, you can be assured of perfect grades. Moreover, your grades will be consistent.
Engineering is quite a demanding subject. Students face a lot of pressure and barely have enough time to do what they love to do. Our academic writing service got you covered! Our engineering specialists follow the paper instructions and ensure timely delivery of the paper.
In the nursing course, you may have difficulties with literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, critical essays, and other assignments. Our nursing assignment writers will offer you professional nursing paper help at low prices.
Truth be told, sociology papers can be quite exhausting. Our academic writing service relieves you of fatigue, pressure, and stress. You can relax and have peace of mind as our academic writers handle your sociology assignment.
We take pride in having some of the best business writers in the industry. Our business writers have a lot of experience in the field. They are reliable, and you can be assured of a high-grade paper. They are able to handle business papers of any subject, length, deadline, and difficulty!
We boast of having some of the most experienced statistics experts in the industry. Our statistics experts have diverse skills, expertise, and knowledge to handle any kind of assignment. They have access to all kinds of software to get your assignment done.
Writing a law essay may prove to be an insurmountable obstacle, especially when you need to know the peculiarities of the legislative framework. Take advantage of our top-notch law specialists and get superb grades and 100% satisfaction.
We have highlighted some of the most popular subjects we handle above. Those are just a tip of the iceberg. We deal in all academic disciplines since our writers are as diverse. They have been drawn from across all disciplines, and orders are assigned to those writers believed to be the best in the field. In a nutshell, there is no task we cannot handle; all you need to do is place your order with us. As long as your instructions are clear, just trust we shall deliver irrespective of the discipline.
Our essay writers are graduates with bachelor's, masters, Ph.D., and doctorate degrees in various subjects. The minimum requirement to be an essay writer with our essay writing service is to have a college degree. All our academic writers have a minimum of two years of academic writing. We have a stringent recruitment process to ensure that we get only the most competent essay writers in the industry. We also ensure that the writers are handsomely compensated for their value. The majority of our writers are native English speakers. As such, the fluency of language and grammar is impeccable.
There is a very low likelihood that you won’t like the paper.
Not at all. All papers are written from scratch. There is no way your tutor or instructor will realize that you did not write the paper yourself. In fact, we recommend using our assignment help services for consistent results.
We check all papers for plagiarism before we submit them. We use powerful plagiarism checking software such as SafeAssign, LopesWrite, and Turnitin. We also upload the plagiarism report so that you can review it. We understand that plagiarism is academic suicide. We would not take the risk of submitting plagiarized work and jeopardize your academic journey. Furthermore, we do not sell or use prewritten papers, and each paper is written from scratch.
You determine when you get the paper by setting the deadline when placing the order. All papers are delivered within the deadline. We are well aware that we operate in a time-sensitive industry. As such, we have laid out strategies to ensure that the client receives the paper on time and they never miss the deadline. We understand that papers that are submitted late have some points deducted. We do not want you to miss any points due to late submission. We work on beating deadlines by huge margins in order to ensure that you have ample time to review the paper before you submit it.
We have a privacy and confidentiality policy that guides our work. We NEVER share any customer information with third parties. Noone will ever know that you used our assignment help services. It’s only between you and us. We are bound by our policies to protect the customer’s identity and information. All your information, such as your names, phone number, email, order information, and so on, are protected. We have robust security systems that ensure that your data is protected. Hacking our systems is close to impossible, and it has never happened.
You fill all the paper instructions in the order form. Make sure you include all the helpful materials so that our academic writers can deliver the perfect paper. It will also help to eliminate unnecessary revisions.
Proceed to pay for the paper so that it can be assigned to one of our expert academic writers. The paper subject is matched with the writer’s area of specialization.
You communicate with the writer and know about the progress of the paper. The client can ask the writer for drafts of the paper. The client can upload extra material and include additional instructions from the lecturer. Receive a paper.
The paper is sent to your email and uploaded to your personal account. You also get a plagiarism report attached to your paper.
GET A PERFECT SCORE!!! 
Delivering a high-quality product at a reasonable price is not enough anymore.
That’s why we have developed 5 beneficial guarantees that will make your experience with our service enjoyable, easy, and safe.
You have to be 100% sure of the quality of your product to give a money-back guarantee. This describes us perfectly. Make sure that this guarantee is totally transparent.
Read moreEach paper is composed from scratch, according to your instructions. It is then checked by our plagiarism-detection software. There is no gap where plagiarism could squeeze in.
Read moreThanks to our free revisions, there is no way for you to be unsatisfied. We will work on your paper until you are completely happy with the result.
Read moreYour email is safe, as we store it according to international data protection rules. Your bank details are secure, as we use only reliable payment systems.
Read moreBy sending us your money, you buy the service we provide. Check out our terms and conditions if you prefer business talks to be laid out in official language.
Read more