Re:Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO
by netcan on Monday November 17, 2008 @09:57PM
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Well Yahoo has been doing badly.
But how much of that is really a management/leadership issue? How much is to do with the fact that Yahoo has been waiting for page views to equal money for a long time now.
People suggest that they should do X with their product Y, supposedly bringing them in tens of millions A drop in the ocean. Or that they need to do Q to get ahead of G! But as a small or local advertiser (the G! secret sauce), using panama is something you do at considerable hassle to get the last 10% of business. Like mining sandy Candian oil.
It's not clear what Yahoo is for, what it does or what it's business model is. That is part of their definition.
Re:Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO
by crabapple on Monday November 17, 2008 @11:33PM
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you nailed it. goog destroyed yahoo in the ad market a while back. there is nothing that can reverse that now. indeed, goog continues to take percentages from them even today
But how much of that is really a management/leadership issue? How much is to do with the fact that Yahoo has been waiting for page views to equal money for a long time now.
People suggest that they should do X with their product Y, supposedly bringing them in tens of millions A drop in the ocean. Or that they need to do Q to get ahead of G! But as a small or local advertiser (the G! secret sauce), using panama is something you do at considerable hassle to get the last 10% of business. Like mining sandy Candian oil.
It's not clear what Yahoo is for, what it does or what it's business model is. That is part of their definition.