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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by kchoudhu on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:57PM (#13446074)
> Marissa Mayer and her reports got poached

Looks like Google dodged a bullet there.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by snovv_crash on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:36PM (#13446785)
Dunno, I think Yahoo! was basically unfixable. I mean, what would you have done differently? They just had too much dead wood, including the brand name.
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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by bduerst on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:51PM (#13447261)
Yahoo! became a holding company for Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan. The search and online services are just window dressing.
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