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Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO

Posted by Soulskill on from the joining-the-parade dept.

D H NG writes "Marissa Mayer, Google's employee #20 and Vice President of Local, has been appointed CEO of Yahoo. She was Google's public face for years, famously being responsible for the look and feel of Google's most popular products: the famously unadorned white search homepage, Gmail, Google News and Google Images. Mayer resigned from Google Monday afternoon and will begin her new job on Tuesday."

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  1. Re:Ship is sinking by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess that's what happens when you start doing evil and putting your advertisers above what should be your actual customers not the product you sell.

    Huh?

    I'm confused. I guess that I didn't understand right, I thought that we users were the product, and the customers were the advertising agencies and companies that pay Google to deliver our views/time to them...

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  2. Seems like a funny choice by joeflies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She spent her time working at a company that has a good product and a pretty solid streak of good years.

    Yahoo is stuck with lots of products that nobody wants anymore and flailing to find what to cut and what to keep. Those kinds of decisions are much more difficult that riding a rocket like Google's last decade. CEOs who turn around failing companies are not pragmatic technologists or engineers, but either cutthroats or visionaries with a killer instinct.

  3. Re:Ship is sinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Um, the definition of your 'customer' is someone who gives you money. Did you remember to pay the Google bill this month? Didn't think so.

  4. Back to products hopefully! by njyx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lots of the press is focused on the fact she's a woman CEO - but more important is she's been one of Google's #1 product people since really early on. Hopefully it'll actually make Yahoo focus on product again and get away from the "audience" focus. Larry and Sergei probably not happy campers right now...!

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  5. Re:So, she used up all her creativy by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She was employee #20 at Google. Her estimated wealth is $300 million. I don't think she needs a parachute. She wants a shot at top dog, and that was the one thing Google couldn't give her.

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