Yahoo! leaps into Polish market with e-mail accounts

For the time being, however, the address www.yahoo.pl redirects users to Yahoo!'s UK portal. Yahoo!'s move follows April's entry of internet auction giant eBay on the Polish market. In many of the larger European countries, such as Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the UK, Yahoo! operates full-fledged, native-language portals, but the company would not say whether this would also be possible in Poland in the future. "The launch of e-mail accounts by Yahoo! is not a revolution in itself," says Paweł Wujec, one of the managers of the Gazeta.pl portal. "But if they add more services, they could win a strong position on our market." Mariusz Kuziak from Kraków-based Interia.pl portal says that Yahoo!'s entry is a good sign, as it indicates that the company sees considerable potential in the Polish internet market. (Gazeta Wyborcza) T.J.