Yahoo and Google Come Up Big In Webby Awards
Google and Yahoo came up big in this year’s Webby awards, winning both Webbys and People’s Voice awards.
Google picked up both the Webby and the People’s Voice award in the Best Visual Design - Function category, thanks to Google Earth (Google Maps and Yahoo’s Flickr were also nominated). Google Earth also swept both awards in the Broadband category, while Google Maps swept both awards in the Services category (Google’s Writely was also nominated). Google Maps was nominated for the Travel category.
Yahoo had won the People’s Voice award for Best Home/Welcome Page, with MyYahoo, the Webby award for Best Navigation/Structure with Flickr, and Yahoo Podcasts won the Webby for Podcasts. Yahoo Finance was nominated for the Financial Services category, their Kevin Sites’ Hot Zone was nominted under News, and their Flickr was nominated for Social Networking.
The most interesting category was Best Practices. The Webby winner? Yahoo’s Flickr. The People’s Voice winner? Google Maps. The other nominees? Google’s Writely, Ask’s Bloglines, and Technorati.
Microsoft’s Xbox.com was nominated in the Community category.
(via Digg)
