I'm bemused and disgruntled by blogger reaction to the recently quoted statement of Susan Decker, Yahoo!
CFO, to the effect that Yahoo! does not aspire to unseat Google as the marketshare leader in search. ("We don't
think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google. It's not our goal to be No. 1 in
Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share.") Steve Rubel (who, by the way, changed
his site design) overreacts grotesquely:
"So if Yahoo! isn't about search anymore, just what is it about?" He continues riffing on this rant
even more absurdly. Steve even proclaims a personal boycott of Yahoo! Search. This is preposterous. Danny Sullivan is
moderate but still unhappy: "...it still
seems like you would want being number one as a goal, even if you think it may be unrealistic or one that will take a
long time to achieve."
Personally, I appreciate the realism expressed by Decker. And I thought
transparency and honesty were values held close to the hearts of bloggers. Apparently not. Let a corporate executive
level with shareholders and customers, and the bloggers excoriate her for poisoning morale and abandoning the company's
business model. Ridiculous.
Yahoo! Is Honest; Bloggers Are Shocked
Reader Comments
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7. So then what does that mean for a media company like Fox who owns MySpace which happens to be the single largest subscriber of YouTube's content?
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Posted at 4:37AM on Jul 26th 2006 by argplywood
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1. I really prefer Google than Yahoo.
Posted at 4:18PM on Jul 19th 2006 by Baris CAN