Comments on: Yahoo! WAKE UP!

By: Fools Gold

Fools Gold — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:22:42 +0000

Well, admitedly I’m not too well qualified to comment on some of this but I must admit that I’ve generally felt Yahoo fell down on its display features. This would simply be a user-interface issue and that is an awful shame if its costing the stockholders money. Their mail features were good but it was hard to understand what selections were available and just why the default typesize was so small.

I don’t know if all this ‘social traffic’ is properly considered an asset to be monetized but if it is, why is Google able to rake in the dough and Yahoo but an also ran that consistently falls short?

The Yahoo team has to hire a rather dumb person who is not a techie type and give them real power to make changes in the products and the way they are marketed.

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:33:40 +0000

Thanks for the comment Felix! But um…could you send me some Google shares instead

By: felix

felix — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:02:22 +0000

I feel your pain as a brother shareholder. Yahoo really does a lot of things great and they have all the makings of a fantastic and compelling experience – combining the ridiculous breadth of actual content (something Google doesn’t have even a fraction of), the web2.0 savvy of all their acquisitions and their actual human relations with content providers (something that Google is trying to do, but they’d have more success if someone who wasn’t a CS major ever got any say in how the public was treated).

Sadly, their problem has always been one of vision and execution. Sigh. Something needs to change up big there, methinks.