Yahoo Will Never Recover

Biased much?<p>Yahoo's so called "razor thin margins" exceed the historic norm for large corporations by nearly 50%.<p>Any comparison to a company that has yet to (or ever will) make a profit is irrelevant.

&#62; Yahoo! has not developed any effective strategy to have any presence in the fast-growing social network sector.<p>Fast-growing in buzz, slow-growing in revenue.

Is there a financial news site that gets high tech? Everything here seems perfectly reasonable if your talking about a company making widgets and doodads, but not so much for intangible computing based products.

I heard the same thing in the past about Nintendo and Apple... They are dying, will never come back, etc.<p>Not saying that Yahoo will recover, but you never know.

Summary: Yahoo! doesn't have the profit margins nor the cash to be able to make aggressive maneuvers. Google and MS on the otherhand can.<p>Makes sense, but I won't go as far as saying Yahoo! will <i>never</i> recover, but it's certainly very difficult.

I think one of the cooler things coming out of yahoo was the "Yslow" best practices. But the guy in charge of that left for google around late 2007, early 2008. From what I've read they seem to have "lost" a lot of other people too.

Yahoo! is just less useful, I think in the future people won't ue its mail system, search and hosting. Even the developer zone will be replaced by other growing third party services like nettuts.<p>Will never recover? May be if they start something new and small that can grow in the future!

Interesting piece - reads correct, but I wouldn't count out a company with 3 billion in liquid reserves. Wow. Also, this set my Small Sample Size Alarm off some:<p>&#62; Bing is off to a remarkably good start. Microsoft has historically had 8% to 9% of the US search market compared to Yahoo!’s 20% and Google’s 65%. Early results show Bing’s share surging as high as 13% of 14% in the <i>three weeks after its introduction</i>. [emphasis added]<p>Still, interesting read. I actually feel better about Yahoo after reading it - I didn't realize they had that much cash in the bank. That means that barring an epic screwup, they've got at least 5-10 years to develop a new big revenue source. I wouldn't count them out yet, but they do need to develop some new products that make cash.

How to detect propaganda:<p>- Powerful words for those who just skim front page headlines<p>- Referencing stocks at lowest $9 when right now they are in a healthy $15.<p>- Words like mistakes, doomed, failure, layoffs<p>I know I will lose some karma here, but this kind of FUD shouldn't be tolerated here in HN.<p>We should know better how to detect it and how to eradicate this pest from news sites.