Sadly, another fail from Yahoo
Well ladies and gentlemen, another failure from the troubled tech powerhouse Yahoo!. As long as Yahoo! keeps putting out new products, I will continue testing them… but I just haven’t seen anything super exciting come out of the once giant search company.
Today’s app review is an app suggestion engine from Yahoo!. I expected that a company with such large development resources would come up with a killer app that would replace apps like ‘AppBrain’ (a pretty good app engine). Turns out, their app is nothing more than a glorified random app picker. Here’s why…
My suggestions in the screenshot to the left are:
Saavn Music – Never seen it in any app store, and no interest in replacing bTunes, Google Music, or any of the other already great music apps out there.
Google Search – Really Yahoo?! This ‘app’ comes standard with all Android phones!
Gulfstream Jobs – Happily employed.
As I made my way through the rest of the recommendations, they were either apps I already had, just-published apps with no logo, or no-name apps with no description.
If you’re going to make an app suggestion engine, dig deep! Take into account my social networking profiles, age, interests, currently installed apps, usage patterns of those apps, and genres of apps I have installed.
Overall I’m sad that I’m disappointed. It seemed like a great play for Yahoo! to release this app. I thought it might help put them on the map in an ever increasingly competitive startup era of tech which is challenging old assumptions of big tech. I guess not. Maybe next time…
