Yahoo's Earnings Weakness Starting To Get Old
from the yahoo? dept
It's no secret that Yahoo's performance has been pretty shabby of late, as it cost CEO Terry Semel his job. The company has tried to argue that its new Panama advertising platform would turn its performance around, but so there seems to be nothing doing. This evening, the company released its earnings, which look to be more of the same. Profits aren't growing and there's no sign that they'll grow anytime soon. To be fair to Jerry Yang, he does deserve some time to right the ship, but as one analyst put it, "This is growing old."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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When will it be bought by funny Turkish companies?
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Hope it will come right back!!
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that ship has sailed...
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Re: that ship has sailed...
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Just a reminder to Yahoo.
Then remember how you started using pop-up ads?
That is when I left you for Google. Because the difference was less of you shoving ads at me for crap I had no desire to buy.
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Re: Just a reminder to Yahoo.
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Re: Re: Just a reminder to Yahoo.
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Google
Seriously though look at the Google landing page compared to MSN and Yahoo's. Who wants lower quality searches mixed with a page crammed full of ad's, useless news and just generally cluttered with junk when they can go to a nice clean and simple looking Google? Even when Google shoves ad's down your throat they are usually relevant and still don't clutter up the page.
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Then remember how you started using pop-up ads?
That is when I left you for Google. Because the difference was less of you shoving ads at me for crap I had no desire to buy.
I second that 100%.
Yahoo was nice when it loaded fast and was simple. Now it's a bunch of ads and articles about hollywood garbage.
Right now - I just went to Yahoo.com. American Express Ad - among many others, Links to Celebrity Videos.... blah~
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Google
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I predicted Google will continue kicking Yahoo!'s ass in the search market and a lot of smaller companies will continue to chip away at Yahoo!'s other services.
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