How many webmasters or forums do you see discussing how well their websites rank with Yahoo, very few. If you do well on google, then the rest come naturally.
I think I would have liked to see Yahoo! sell to Microsoft. There could have have been a lot of new features that we haven't seen yet. Right now Google is great for webmasters but Yahoo! has the market on email and Groups.
when I was still a high school student, and didn't knew much about internet and seo and all of those, I have always preferred google. but, with the free email service, I used yahoomail, but nowadays, I prefer gmail