Comments on: Signs of Life at Yahoo

By: Offer Limbo

Offer Limbo — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:27:01 +0000

Not sure if Yahoo Victim is correct, as the freeze was lifted with the quarterly PR. Could management have reinstalled it in a few weeks? Makes no sense! But, a lot of job postings were removed from their company website, so maybe Victim is right? Anyone know for sure? Were the jobs cancelled, or postings removed because someone was hired?

By: Yahoo! Victim

Yahoo! Victim — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:13:29 +0000

The title of this post - “Signs of Life at Yahoo!” seems quite wrong at this moment.

In fact, “signs of frozen action” is more like it. Yahoo! has recently announced company wide hiring freeze. All the extended offers are on hold and / or are terminated.

Many people have faced serious consequences, as they left their companies for the offer from Yahoo! Being a company of its stature, one expects more professional behavior from the execs. I hope this is not a serious sign of Yahoo!’s downfall …

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:09:23 +0000

@Richard Pryor (12 and 14), Panama powers all Yahoo ads both on Yahoo sites and on the Yahoo Publisher Network. It is the ad system. I double-checked this with Yahoo.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:47:46 +0000

I am not sure I would call it signs of life but rather signs of some intelligence. It is my greatest hope that it is followed with signs of life.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:52:26 +0000

@sputnick

Are you an adsense user?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:51:54 +0000

@OneSearch

Why attack the guy? That was uncalled for.

I had been a loyal yahoo email user since the mid 1990s, but today its completely unusable for me because of the spam. Yes, I had used my email address when signing up for website accounts (not porn) over multiple years, and so I can assume I have made it onto multiple spam mailing lists. Another issue is that my email address may not be unique enough, so spambots that generate random email addresses will hit my email.

Considering all of that, Yahoo’s spam filter just doesn’t work that well. I keep getting emails promoting various services that are obviously spam (viagra, anatomy enhancement, home loans, etc), which the Yahoo spam filter is incapable of identifying. I only keep my Yahoo email for the few people who haven’t moved over to my new gmail account, and because its the account used for their fantasy football service.

By: sputnick

sputnick — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:39:52 +0000

It would be nice to have a fallback alternative to Adsense. Hope they keep improving Panama.

By: joe shmoe

joe shmoe — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:26:11 +0000

I’ve used Y! search exclusively for the past year or so and of late I find myself clicking on ads way more often than I did in the past. The relevancy of both search results as well as ads has gotten as good as Google at LEAST. Yahoo is also not behind in page-load times — no reason for me to switch to Google.

Local info integration and other shortcuts come in very handy as well. I sometimes laugh at the publicity Google got when it launched Universal search when almost all of that was already available in Yahoo. Talk about media sleeping with Google!

What perhaps Yahoo does lack is a bit of polish on their maps app, IMHO!

Oh and can’t live without Google?! My ass!!

By: OneSearch

OneSearch — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:14:08 +0000

@11 JJTrip,
Why don’t you first stop visiting all those porn sites and submitting your emails to them. I personally have been using yahoomail since 1998 and have hardly had any spam in last 3-4 years. You are a moron and the world knows it now.

By: Norman

Norman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:01:15 +0000

There is no surprise that Yahoo is getting better considering Flickr and much improved search, and yahoo finance etc.

By: Uhhh..

Uhhh.. — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:41:05 +0000

@11: People judge you on the Internet. In submitting a comment adhering to very few rules of grammar or syntax, you expose yourself to being adjudged an idiot. Please learn how to write properly (and build a reasonable website) before submitting any further content.

Sincerely,
Everyone

By: Manuel

Manuel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:34:54 +0000

A lot of life indeed. Don’t forget Yahoo also hired Manuel Noriega.

By: nate willard

nate willard — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:32:33 +0000

“the CEO of a startup that plans to make its money from search ads, will be using Google AdSense instead.” - What kind of long-term business model is that?

http://answers.nobosh.com/

By: Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:53:11 +0000

What I mean is:

Yahoo Panama = Google Adwords
Yahoo Publisher = Google Adsense

It sounded strange that the exec said that he/she was going to use Adsense instead of Panama. No big deal.

Erick - I miss Business 2.0 already. That was my favorite magazine ever!

Rich

By: Sia

Sia — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:52:24 +0000

Well maybe we can spare an experimental egg out of our precious basket and try their Panama ad serving. Although I doubt we’ll boost their last quarter earnings. Hopefully our curiosity will pay off.

By: Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:47:15 +0000

Panama and Adsense are two totally different things. Who’s the Yahoo exec?

By: jjtripp

jjtripp — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:42:30 +0000

yahoo is yesterdays business, google has consistently better results, more concise cross reference, it is just the best way to search, I personally hope yahoo falls into the hole that they dug for themselves, I have a yahoo and google acct., yahoo is the one one that continually spams me, I personally do not need their ideas of offers I “might ” need, and I sure do not need there “partners”, I hope they die a painful death, and maybe the company that emerges afterword will learn not to spam their customers! Good bye yahoo!! we will not miss you

By: Amy Wilsch

Amy Wilsch — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:37:13 +0000

I wish Yahoo would get it together. But at least Panama ads are way better than MSFT AdCenter. I have been playing w/ all 3 the past several weeks and I have more problems with MSFT AdCenter than anything - they constantly reject obvious words and then don’t respond when I contest their rejections. I think they have individuals (ie humans, not machines) rejecting things. Google is still the best to use but Yahoo’s is getting better quickly. We get different results on both too so we won’t chuck either one any time soon. Google removed “stories of wife swapping” but MSFT removed “cherished memories” (our site is ALL about cherished memories!!)

By: stone

stone — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:25:42 +0000

Alex,

Totally agree that making numbers is better than missing numbers. Let’s just keep in mind that Yahoo is not really growing anymore. That’s a fact. Their bottomline is flat, dead in the water.

By: LonelyBloggers

LonelyBloggers — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:12:30 +0000

Too bad Yahoo literally begs/spams me with weekly invites to add funds to my Panama account..

By: Deals and Coupons

Deals and Coupons — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:06:35 +0000

Good to see Yahoo! still in the game!

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:58:03 +0000

Yahoo is twice as good as Gaggle and half the search as MSN!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:46:25 +0000

@3 stone

Don’t rain on my parade:)

So I guess they should have continued to miss numbers?

If anything this is a very positive sign. Expectation has been in the dumps for some time. This quarter was just another opportunity to continue to kick Terry Semel and blame him for “some things” - which they clearly could have done, but did not.

By: PJ

PJ — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:46:19 +0000

Yahoo added Jamie Mottram of AOL blogging fame, Ross McKeon former NHL beat writer for the SF Chronicle, Kevin Iole one of the mosted respected MMA writers, they had the recent online streaming of the Strikeforce card from the playboy mansion. And that is just some of the people they have brought in on the sports side.

There are a lot of signs of life at Yahoo. If they can just find ways to maximize revenue for original content, they can capitalize on some of the bloodletting being done by the MSM.

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Signs of Life at Yahoo »TechAddress — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:30:05 +0000

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