Is anyone else kind of rooting for Yahoo? I can't really explain why, because I hate most of the things Yahoo makes: Yahoo Answers, Tumblr, etc. but I guess I can't help cheering for the underdog.
Search is really really hard to do, isn't it? I mean there aren't that many search engines, and even more prominent "alternative" engines (like DuckDuckGo) are often pulling results from Google and/or Bing...both of which have made fairly gargantuan investments in the technology and infrastructure behind their search engines.<p>Could there be some other technical genius way of doing it? Well...I'm sure there is, but would Yahoo really have the in-house talent to discover it before Google or Bing (or another wealthy potential Search entrant like Apple or Facebook)?<p>Sure, Marissa has been buying up talent, but that has primarily been mobile devs...
This could be a great move. Google has moved focus on its search to advertising.<p>When searching "Hotels in San Francisco", the first organic search term is below the fold for me, which is a 180 from where Google was even 3 years ago.
That's interesting because I have never thought of Yahoo as a search engine. When I first encountered Yahoo, it was really nothing more than a curated directory of links. As soon as I discovered Google, I left it and never looked back.
recently, yahoo web search has been integrated into tumblr (which has the worst possible search system I have ever seen).<p>That should provide some boost, but I wonder if it's considered in the market share statistics.
Yahoo doing search? I think that ship has sunk.<p>What exactly does Yahoo do these days? Mayer seems to be repeating history with her goings on at Yahoo.<p>I would love for someone to turn Yahoo around but I don't think it is possible. Might be time to sell to Microsoft.
Seriously, can she bring back the old/stable yahoo mail back first?
The new my-yahoo page is no better, been a yahoo user for 10+ years suddenly the yahoo services becomes so much worse since she became CEO.
sigh.
It'll be very interesting to see if she can manage to get out of the deal. It'd also take a monumental effort in recruitment and research to make a move like this a success, in my opinion anyway.