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> Seriously, answering that question should probably be their number 1 priority. Spot on. Focus on nothing else but this initially. Remember Carol Bartz's answ
by bvi 15y ago
> Seriously, answering that question should probably be their number 1 priority.
Spot on. Focus on nothing else but this initially. Remember Carol Bartz's answer to "What is Yahoo?"?
"What is Yahoo? Listen Yahoo is a great company that is very, very strong
in content for its users, uses amazing technology to serve up what increasingly
we think is going to be the web of one. For instance, on our today module in the
front page, every 5 minutes we have 32,000 different variations of that module.
So you don’t even know what I’m seeing in fact we serve a million different front
page modules a day and that’s just through content optimization. And that’s just
the beginning. Customized because we know the things you’re interested in. Maybe
you don’t like light entertainment maybe you like a certain sports team, etc. And
our click through rate went up twice. So the point is, people come to us to find
out what is going on with the world in a very nice quick fashion to do their
communications, email, messanger, check-in on their teens. We all know about
Yahoo finance. It’s a places where you can just get it together. It’s collated
for you, it’s all the things as you’re moving, you can even get your social
information there. Everybody moves through many websites in a day, Yahoo is one
they always stop at."
Ouch.
Link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/ok-seriously-what-is-yahoo/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/ok-seriously-what-is-yahoo/
- yuvadam 15y agoI cringe when I read that. At the same time I can't help but feel sorry for a company that once really was synonymous with 'the web' and nowadays has completely lost it's direction.