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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.