How is it that when Yahoo! closes something (AltaVista), everyone says, “Oh, that Yahoo! can’t compete in today’s marketplace!”, but when Google closes something (Reader, Talk, etc), the conventional wisdom is, “Well, they took it as far as they could but it’s not their fault/there’s no market for it/it’s the user’s fault/the market really wants Plus instead”. Google failed to innovate on Reader as much as Yahoo! has on numerous products (such as Flickr), but Google gets a pass while Yahoo gets killed.
If the argument is that Google is a better company than Yahoo!, I’d easily agree. But the bias for Google/against Yahoo! really shows on some of these articles.
