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A comment on Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO. Parent comment
I used Yahoo and understood what it did for me. In 1997.
Then Google came, and my ass was a portal, and Yahoo's homepage (on the rare occasion I looked at it) was crap.
Then there were Yahoo magazines and mass-media advertising -- we're talking 1999/2000 here. The company already didn't make sense to me then.
I remember ~2009 when AOL were being accused of copying Yahoo's homepage, and thinking "gee ... I've never been on either". Both were crap.
For a while Yahoo's Finance pages were decent (Jeremy Zawodny knows his shit), but even that's passe.
At best they're sort of a Computer Associates of Web 1.0. Where mediocre technology goes to die.
The Bartz era was at least an entertaining train wreck to watch.
I used Yahoo and understood what it did for me. In 1997.
Then Google came, and my ass was a portal, and Yahoo's homepage (on the rare occasion I looked at it) was crap.
Then there were Yahoo magazines and mass-media advertising -- we're talking 1999/2000 here. The company already didn't make sense to me then.
I remember ~2009 when AOL were being accused of copying Yahoo's homepage, and thinking "gee ... I've never been on either". Both were crap.
For a while Yahoo's Finance pages were decent (Jeremy Zawodny knows his shit), but even that's passe.
At best they're sort of a Computer Associates of Web 1.0. Where mediocre technology goes to die.
The Bartz era was at least an entertaining train wreck to watch.