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"We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google," Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share."
Today, thay say:
Yahoo is still very much committed to search, the company said in response to a media report claiming that the company had conceded the search battle to Google.Two company executives emphasised in a posting on the Yahoo Search Blog that they considered the battle far from over. "We are still in the early days of search. We're in it for the long haul, and we're in it to win," they wrote.
Or her check from Google :)
Lu and Walther also talked up Yahoo projects and acquisitions including Flickr, del.icio.us and My Web as proof that the company is continuing to innovate and help users access information through other ways than web searches.
Uh huh. How is saying your innovating and helping users "through other ways then web searches" going to help your case that you are still committed to said web searches?
Face it Yahoo, you showed your hand and Wall Street took notice: here's Yahoo's 5 day chart for this week [finance.yahoo.com]. See that big volume spike on Wednesday? There's your impact.
Uh huh. How is saying your innovating and helping users "through other ways then web searches" going to help your case that you are still committed to said web searches?
Have you ever used del.icio.us? Its my backup search engine - especially for searching on webmaster/programming relating things. I would say Y was thinking the same when they purchased it.
That post is clearly to help morale among the search folks. As I said before, how'd you like to be #2 and have a leader tell everyone we've given up on being #1?
If I was the VP of search, I'd be screaming at her. How am I going to retain and attract talent now?
A slip of the tongue gets everyone talking...
The troops start to worry...
The talker walks the plank... or back-peddles (hard)...
Y! has to prove they will go the 'extra mile' to attract and retain talent...
To prove they are committed to search Y! *must* become a better Search Engine...
By becoming a better Search Engine, they gain market share...
Likely? Dunno.
Possible? Absolutely.
Justin
My comment was born mostly from my semi-irrational loathing of Yahoo's paid inclusion program, so take it with a grain of salt :P
If Yahoo still wants to try to be #1 then that's awesome, but they better get their head out of their proveribial backside if they want to be able to accomplish that goal.
And whats her name...I would hope that she has been canned for opening her mouth in such a manner. If she worked for me she would be gone immediately for such a public statement.
That's not what people said. Maybe your pitchfork got in the way of your hearing.
The statements don't even contradict each other, because clearly in the long run just maintaining their market share could make them #1 as more competitors join in.
Is there any other area where hysteria is more rampant than search engines?
And more to the point, it should be easy to see that Yahoo's priority should be in improving its search product. Until they do that, they should be "very happy" to maintain their market share. If/when they improve their product somewhere down the line, in the long haul, they can put a different goal in their sights.
I admit as a webmaster I have to use google but I still use Yahoo search a lot and find it useful.
Both search engines need some serious work in certain regards but I don't see any real difference besides some page layouts and media emphasis.
