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He's a bit delusional... I agree that Yahoo is the C-list, but Mahalo is the bigger resume stain, unless you're making a career in spam.

amock 17y ago
How is Yahoo the C-list? They may not be as good at making money as Google is, but they have a lot of good engineers and over the past few years they've done a lot more than Google. They have YUI, BOSS, and I've had much better luck with Yahoo's search results than with Google's. Google has all the hype, but they keep releasing things like Wave and Buzz that aren't very useful to most people. It seems to me that he really made the choice between working on a spam engine and working with a lot of talented people on interesting products that are used by hundreds of millions of people. Calcanis not having anything good to say about Yahoo is expected, but there's a lot more to Yahoo than the Google fanboys would have you believe.
- starkfist 17y ago
  Yahoo doesn't have much of a hiring filter. It's very easy to get hired there. Thus, there are a lot of people just taking up space, or worse. There's a lot of cargo cult "engineering" going on. This makes it hard for good people to not lose their minds. Whenever Yahoo acquires a company, the acquired talent flees as soon as possible. Google started down the same path of talent dilution with their huge hiring spree a few years back, but they already had enough talent so it's not going to affect them as much. I didn't intend this to be a Yahoo/Google comparison, but it is incorrect to say that Yahoo has done more than Google the past few years. Buzz and Wave are indeed solutions without a problem but are technologically more impressive than anything Yahoo has done, ever.
rradu 17y ago
There's reason to believe Yahoo is on its way back up. They've let go of a lot of their underperforming services, grew display advertising by 22% in the past year, and have a very capable executive suite. I'd say moving to Yahoo is a good move.
moe 17y ago
Hell yes. Yahoo demonstrates some great engineering talent in various products. What does Mahalo have? A scraped HTML linkfarm. Which are dime a dozen, except this one somehow evaded the google ban so far. The whole "trying to crush Yahoo" notion is just surreal to me. Not only do I not see that happen. But I also think many people would miss yahoo and their products, whereas I have never seen anyone say anything positive about Mahalo.

amock 17y ago

How is Yahoo the C-list? They may not be as good at making money as Google is, but they have a lot of good engineers and over the past few years they've done a lot more than Google. They have YUI, BOSS, and I've had much better luck with Yahoo's search results than with Google's. Google has all the hype, but they keep releasing things like Wave and Buzz that aren't very useful to most people. It seems to me that he really made the choice between working on a spam engine and working with a lot of talented people on interesting products that are used by hundreds of millions of people. Calcanis not having anything good to say about Yahoo is expected, but there's a lot more to Yahoo than the Google fanboys would have you believe.

starkfist 17y ago
Yahoo doesn't have much of a hiring filter. It's very easy to get hired there. Thus, there are a lot of people just taking up space, or worse. There's a lot of cargo cult "engineering" going on. This makes it hard for good people to not lose their minds. Whenever Yahoo acquires a company, the acquired talent flees as soon as possible. Google started down the same path of talent dilution with their huge hiring spree a few years back, but they already had enough talent so it's not going to affect them as much. I didn't intend this to be a Yahoo/Google comparison, but it is incorrect to say that Yahoo has done more than Google the past few years. Buzz and Wave are indeed solutions without a problem but are technologically more impressive than anything Yahoo has done, ever.

rradu 17y ago

There's reason to believe Yahoo is on its way back up. They've let go of a lot of their underperforming services, grew display advertising by 22% in the past year, and have a very capable executive suite. I'd say moving to Yahoo is a good move.

moe 17y ago

Hell yes. Yahoo demonstrates some great engineering talent in various products. What does Mahalo have? A scraped HTML linkfarm. Which are dime a dozen, except this one somehow evaded the google ban so far. The whole "trying to crush Yahoo" notion is just surreal to me. Not only do I not see that happen. But I also think many people would miss yahoo and their products, whereas I have never seen anyone say anything positive about Mahalo.