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Is it possible that Jerry Yang is a bumbling idiot? I mean the handling of things on his watch, and grammar ;) 1 point is a line, 2 points is a trend .... Wel

• pg 18y ago
  He's not dumb. He and Filo were in the PhD program in CS at Stanford when they started the company. A lot of the problem here is Google. Google draws away much of the online ad revenue that would have been Yahoo's. It also draws away most of the good hackers, so Yahoo continues to fall behind. If Airbus were an outlier on the scale that Google is, Boeing would look terrible.
  • michaelneale 18y ago
    He seems to be the whipping boy in the media though (which is how most people would "know" him) - I assume you know him personally though. I wouldn't expect him to be dumb like that, but a bumbling manager watching your "baby" suffer was more what I was thinking. I am sure there are furious shareholders right now.
  • gleb 18y ago
    I don't see how Google can draw away Yahoo's online ad revenue. Only in the sense that Google competes with Yahoo for search impressions. On the media side of things Google is not a serious competitor. That Yahoo can't monetize the search impressions they do get as well as Google (and thus would benefit from Google monetization deal) is purely a technical execution failure for Yahoo engineering and executives. To this day you can't take an export from Google AdWords account and import it in Yahoo. They say you can, but their SEM system is not powerful enough to support anything nontrivial.