Borrowing From Google, Marissa Mayer Begins Yahoo Makeover

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo's rookie chief executive Marissa Mayer has made one thing clear to employees at the outset of her bid to revive the Internet company: Product comes first.

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[lucylou]

04:09 AM on 08/11/2012

Hopefully, they'll start by GOOGLING themselves -- and find the litany of complaints of their lousy email service and annoying, SPAM-filled IM feature.
Every day there's a new feature that doesn't work, or an old, great feature -- like being able to classify your contacts into neat categories - that is taken away. Or being able to click on an email address and copy it...I now have to pretend to forward the email in order to retrieve addresses.

Only out of sheer laziness of having to change all my letterhead, addresses, passwords and notifications have prevented me from making the change.

Oh - and, Yahoo? Start getting used to the idea that some people are mac users out there.

[doublels]

12:24 PM on 08/10/2012

NOOOOOOO!!! I don't want yahoo to be like FB! I don't want to have to relearn the website. I know....I'm old and don't want to keep up with every techno advance. Forgive me. But what's wrong with yahoo anyways??? Excuse me....i must go pout now.

[teragramus]

11:42 AM on 08/10/2012

middle managers usually make lousy ceos, but right, she has Loeb to suck up to

[lurkinman]

11:23 AM on 08/10/2012

"She has also told employees that she wants to rewire Yahoo to develop or acquire Web services that take advantage of new "platforms" such as social networking, mobile devices, and technology that gives people information about their immediate surroundings, including local businesses."

Welcome to 2008.

[becky bradshaw]

02:52 PM on 08/09/2012

Ms. Mayer faces a problem of expectations. Yahoo was condemned because it was not Google. There will only be one Google. That market space has been filled. If Yahoo can survive for a few more years, it will have outperformed most of its peers, like Alta Vista and MySpace.

P.S. Yahoo's PR machine is doing is its job, installing Ms. Mayer's face on the public's perception of the company (with the help of chief shill, the Wall Street Journal). Let us not forget that the real power is Daniel Loeb,manager of hedge fund "Third Point". Mr. Loeb, now that he has busted up the Yahoo shop, wants to go back to the shadows, and let Ms. Mayer accept responsibility.