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Yahoo is pretty much done (from an ex-Yahoo)

• jacquesm 16y ago
  Looking in from the outside I'd agree with you, but what's next then? Slow death? Buy-out? (at a valuation lower than the bid that saw Jerry Yang get ousted). They still have some really strong properties (though I imagine flickr to be feeling the heat of Facebook), a 2 minutes to twelve turn-around can't be completely ruled out but it's not going to happen under current management.
  • jscore 16y ago
    Yahoo is really an impression based media company. The number one goal is to drive traffic to properties and monetize it via impressions. Don't get me wrong -- they've build some impressive technology in house and have/had some bright engineers, but beginning from Filo, Y! was always a media company. The top management continues to drive it in that direction. As far as properties, Y! Personals was spun off, I believe, and sold to match.com, and that was a pretty profitable business. Y! Real Estate now sells its leads to another company (Trulia?) although when I worked there, they wanted to do something in house. As content becomes a commodity day by day (via proliferation of blogs, digg-like sites, social media), Yahoo will continue to struggle in a bid to find its relevance.