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NYT on Terry Semel of Yahoo!

Posted by Zonk on from the another-big-thinker dept.

prostoalex writes "With the recent CEO smackdown and Steve Jobs profiled by BusinessWeek, The New York Times talks about yet another high-tech CEO - Terry Semel of Yahoo! An outsider to the industry, Terry Semel currently leads the global company with the broadest reach. NYT looks into Yahoo!'s most valuable assets - technology produced by its employees, and covers many Yahoo! products, some of which, like Yahoo! Search, launched 2 years ago, trail only Google in the amount of users."

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  1. 2 years ago? by HairyCanary · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yahoo! Search, by name, perhaps has only been around 2 years. But Yahoo! was a search engine well before that -- in fact, I remember a time when everyone I knew used Yahoo! and not Google. Perhaps it's just semantics -- Yahoo! was a directory, perhaps, not a true search engine? Even so, it is made up like a compliment that they only trail Google in number of users after just two years. Most of those users were probably already Yahoo! users.

    1. Re:2 years ago? by aengblom · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yahoo had a directory, but had farmed out the search engine (to Google for a while actually), until about 2 years ago when they bought Inktomi and ramped up development on their own proprietary search engine.

      Their point is that their in-house search engine is on par (you can have your own opinion here) with Google's even though they started it just two years ago. Granted, they bought Inktomi, which had been working on its own for quite awhile.

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  2. Web 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    While some consider Yahoo to be behind in tech, with the purchase of Flikr and del.icio.us Yahoo actually seem to be on the cutting edge of so called Web 2.0 services. I hope Yahoo keeps the names of these services without adding Yahoo to them. Its less sickening then organizations that just add a "G" or "K" in front of every product they offer.