I was checking my viewer statistic logs and found more than 20 Yahoo Slurp search engine views for the past few days. Google has about 5, MSN Search has about 7-8. Now that MSN came out with the new toolbar, Yahoo feels it’s really falling behind? Google has been pretty quiet lately, perhaps too quiet. Everyone is expecting something from the search giant.

It just seems odd to me how Yahoo has been going down for the last few years. They have always been on the top of the list at everything — search, electronic mail, directory listing, instant messenging, news — before 2000. Now each of those subjects is taken over big-timed by something else. I’ve always thought of Yahoo as a friendly company that hasn’t done too much good or bad for the users. Microsoft’s game of monopoly gets annoying sometimes too, forcing me to use Internet Explorer and MSN passport all the time.

And even after Yahoo bought Flickr, no one is really hyped about it. Even my old Yahoo email address now redirects to my Gmail one.

I also learned something called Ajax (a combination of Javascript, XMLHttpRequest, and some server service) today. This seems like a really popular use of technology now. Gmail is using it. It’s that thing where you can get information without reloading the page. A9 also uses it for a portion of its stuff. This seems really useful — I might consider it for the future projects.