Comments on: Yahoo will re-org

By: ed

ed — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:25:45 +0000

yahoo getting a reorganization is no suprise to me. More development is required!

By: David Dalka

David Dalka — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:53:19 +0000

I like to debate Internet strategy too Matt, mayeb we shoudl debate?

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:26:52 +0000

Oh, we absolutely are, Harith. If anything, our focus will sharpen on European spam in 2007. I’m looking forward to it very much.

By: Harith

Harith — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:15:14 +0000

Matt

“Harith, I am sending my best spam person to Europe for six months in 2007″

Very nice to hear that. And it might signal that WebSpam Team is still paying attention to “European-Spam”

By: Lemmybrown

Lemmybrown — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:55:17 +0000

Yahoo may or may not turn it around. They have an interesting experiment running http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/. The public don’t know anything about algorithms, they’ll take to anything that gives them what they want as quickly as possible (meaning they want fast, relevant search results). I remember when Google was becoming popular, most people talked about the simple interface more than any technical reason.

The web 3.0 concept of a deeper understanding of the words people use to search is being developed, probably, by all search companies large and small.
Whoever gets their new search tool into the public eye fastest will succeed (as long as it really works). It wasn’t long ago that Google was tiny. There are many small enterprises working now towards becoming the next Google.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:51:37 +0000

I hope that they will speed up there efforts in the process, there technology is massively slow and inadequate compared to the way Google, and not just in search. Good example is compare there Yahoo! Site Explorer service to Google Sitemaps … terrible, speed is ridiculously slow.

Yahoo! has always fitted the profile to challenge Google it just seems they have never lived up to the billing… (Nor do I ever expect them to based on history)

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:06:01 +0000

Harith, I am sending my best spam person to Europe for six months in 2007.

By: D Sarathy

D Sarathy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:53:06 +0000

This should create some distraction initially. Since this is involving the senior management of Yahoo including Jerry Yang, we can assume that the initial distraction should be take care of.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:42:37 +0000

Sometimes, you reach the peak. And, you can longer get bigger. Re-org happens. I’m not sure if somebody uses Yahoo anymore. They took a dive for some reason.

By: Multi-Worded Adam

Multi-Worded Adam — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:44:37 +0000

I’ll vote for “distracted.”

I’m also going to be the first person to ask this openly: does anyone know what the hell Yahoo! is actually saying in this press release?

More importantly, are they actually TRYING to say something substantial or are they just spitting out corporate rhetoric?

The title of the thing is almost a paragraph by itself!!!

This looks to me like something that is designed to please corporate-types and shareholders rather than provide anything of real benefit or use. It’ll take at least 6-8 months just to try and figure out what this thing is supposed to mean, and even then it’ll be interpreted 8 ways from Sunday.

This is nothing more than blivet. Pure, unadulterated blivet.

“Here is your winner…and STILL Search Engine Heavyweight Champion…Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooogllllllllllllllllllllllllllle!!!!!”