{"id":548377,"date":"2010-04-30T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100429\/1647569245.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-30T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:57:00","slug":"is-yahoos-ceo-really-in-a-position-to-tell-google-what-it-needs-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548377","title":{"rendered":"Is Yahoo&#8217;s CEO Really In A Position To Tell Google What It Needs To Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, I thought it was pretty amusing to see this headline in the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/10090449.stm\" >Yahoo chief Carol Bartz sees trouble for Google<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What else is she supposed to say?  Of course she&#8217;s going to slag the company that totally destroyed Yahoo at its own game, but the real question is why would anyone listen?  Yahoo isn&#8217;t exactly in the position of being able to say what Google should be doing, given that every single move that Yahoo has tried against Google has failed &#8212; sometimes miserably.  Bartz&#8217;s comments get more amusing the further the article goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;Google is going to have a problem because Google is only known for search&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I guess she should know.  While she won&#8217;t admit it, people still tend to think of Yahoo as search as well.  And Yahoo spent so much time trying to diversify that if they don&#8217;t think about Yahoo as search these days&#8230; they just think about Yahoo as being a confused jumble of sites that don&#8217;t do much.  In the meantime, despite her claims, it does appear that Google has expanded well beyond search.  AdSense (which is about other content sites) makes them lots of money.  Pretty much everyone I know uses Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Maps rather than the Yahoo equivalents.  I&#8217;m trying to think of what other areas Yahoo has expanded into that have been successful for the company.<\/p>\n<p>But the funniest statement of all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;Google has to grow a company the size of Yahoo every year to be interesting.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that anyone judges Google based on how &#8220;interesting&#8221; they are.  Is that the metric they use at Yahoo?  Does that explain the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/yahoos-bartz-made-472-million-in-2009-2010-4\" >$47 million<\/a> she apparently made last year?  Because she made Yahoo so interesting?  Well, I guess it should be admitted that Yahoo <i>is<\/i> the company that is trying (and so far, failing) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/about?id=CHqcAAAAEBAJ&#038;dq=interestingness+ranking+of+media+objects\" >patent &#8220;interestingness,&#8221;<\/a> so perhaps she&#8217;s just urging Google to be interesting for the sake of a future patent fight?  In the meantime, I would assume that, at Google, they judge the company based on how much money it makes &#8212; and on that front, it appears to be cleaning Yahoo&#8217;s clock on a pretty regular basis.  <\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;growing a company the size of Yahoo every year,&#8221; that becomes easier and easier as Yahoo gets smaller and smaller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100429\/1647569245.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100429\/1647569245.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100429\/1647569245&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=45450f175dbd1a7583058050a1973e89&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=45450f175dbd1a7583058050a1973e89&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=8WAy7wVf-s4:_j2h9IcRlpA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=8WAy7wVf-s4:_j2h9IcRlpA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=8WAy7wVf-s4:_j2h9IcRlpA:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/8WAy7wVf-s4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, I thought it was pretty amusing to see this headline in the BBC: Yahoo chief Carol Bartz sees trouble for Google. What else is she supposed to say? Of course she&#8217;s going to slag the company that totally destroyed Yahoo at its own game, but the real question is why would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}