My new job

Posted June 18th, 2007 at 1:18 pm by Jerry Yang, CEO & Chief Yahoo

 210 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News, Working at Yahoo!

The title of Chief Yahoo takes on new meaning today. I have the great honor of stepping into the role of Yahoo!’s Chief Executive Officer. Yahoo! has an incredibly bright future and I make this move with deep conviction and enthusiasm. I’ve partnered closely with our executive teams for 12 years to steer our strategy and direction and today I’m ready for this challenge.

Today also marks the close of a great chapter in my life with Terry Semel as my partner. Since coming on board in 2001, Terry has given Yahoo! six of its best years. He delivered great value to our users, advertisers and shareholders. Terry refocused the company on key strategic priorities, and in so doing, helped Yahoo! increase our revenues nearly nine-fold from $717 million in 2001 to $6.4 billion in 2006; boost our operating income from a loss in 2001 to nearly $1 billion last year; and create more than $30 billion in shareholder value during his tenure. He helped grow our audience from 170 million to more than 500 million users globally, and he oversaw the expansion of our base of talented employees from 3,500 to nearly 12,000.

I will always be grateful for the incredible achievements under his leadership — and for his mentorship and friendship. We’ll continue to benefit from his support and guidance as he transitions to his role as our Chairman.

I also couldn’t ask for a better partner in Sue Decker as our new president. In addition to knowing this company inside and out, Sue has incredible talents, leadership abilities, a fierce focus on winning, and intense dedication to this company and its people. I look forward to teaming more closely with her as we pursue our joint vision.

What is that vision? A Yahoo! that executes with speed, clarity and discipline. A Yahoo! that increases its focus on differentiating its products and investing in creativity and innovation. A Yahoo! that better monetizes its audience. A Yahoo! whose great talent is galvanized to address its challenges. And a Yahoo! that is better focused on what’s important to its users, customers, and employees.

The past year has obviously not been an easy one for us. But we’ve taken important steps to address the challenges we face, and we’re starting to realize some of the benefits – especially with the successful launch of Panama, which continues to receive positive feedback from advertisers and is exceeding our expectations. By the way, that’s directly attributable to the operational excellence mentality Terry has instilled and is a clear sign one of his most critical initiatives is succeeding.

We have incredible assets. This company has massive potential, drive, determination and skills, and we won’t be satisfied until the external perception of Yahoo! accurately reflects that reality.

I have absolute conviction about Yahoo!’s potential for long-term success as an Internet leader. Yahoo! is a company that started with a vision and a dream and, make no mistake, that dream is very much alive. I’m committed to doing whatever it takes to transform Yahoo! into an even greater success in the future.

The time for me is right. The time is now. The Internet is still young, the opportunities ahead are tremendous, and I’m ready to rally our nearly 12,000 Yahoos around the world to help seize them.

Go Yahoo!

Jerry Yang
CEO and Chief Yahoo

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mark heyert | June 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Jerry,
Break a leg!
Best,
Mark

Ryan | June 18th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Jerry,

As a longtime Yahoo! user and shareholder – welcome to the new role!!!

I hope you will continue to build upon Yahoo!’s great products wikth further innovations.

Here is to a new chapter!!!

Again, congrats!

Ewan | June 18th, 2007 at 1:54 pm

I’m just fascinated by the news reaction to this, blogged on here at 1:18pm, 20 minutes later it’s front page news on the BBC website, the world has definitely changed in the last couple of years :)

Chris Messina | June 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

Big news! But hey, as a member of your “audience”, this strikes me as old-world thinking: “A Yahoo! that better monetizes its audience.”

I don’t wish to be monetized.

But I do appreciate the great products that Yahoo has purchased and has left to flourish on their own. If you can continue to support those teams of people and let them do their good work, I think you’ll really afford Yahoo the opportunity to remain the leader in people-produced content.

Fred Oliveira | June 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

The way people see Y! has been changing quite a bit recently, some would say for better, some might say for worse – personally, I like to see Yahoo! make the right acquisitions, pay attention to developers and maintaining the cool – which is undoubtedly a hard thing to do when you’re a 12.000 people company. More important than telling you to take the helm and change things, I think it fits to say: keep up the good work.

Kingsley | June 18th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

I hope we’ll see some real, credible competition with Google now.

mookie | June 18th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

congrats and good luck jerry!

Toni Schneider | June 18th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Wow – this is very exciting news! Congratulations.

Jim Goldstein | June 18th, 2007 at 2:20 pm

A very exciting development. Congratulations! I look forward to more great developments and products from Yahoo in the coming years under your leadership.

StockDoc | June 18th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

Good luck… Focus on Y! users and lower the SGA expenses.

salim madjd | June 18th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

This is a welcomed and exciting news that should have come sooner!

Best of luck to yahoo. Looking forward to healthy competition between yahoo, google and Microsoft that will benefit the industry as a whole.

Brett Hellman | June 18th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

Congratulations Jerry! I love that you mentioned that “the Internet is still young.”

I’m eager to follow your lead.

Jakob Nielsen | June 18th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

Congratulations.

Three ideas:

a) Make a better search. (OK, this is an obvious idea.) The game is far from over, and there’s plenty of opportunity to beat Google. In userf testing, we *often* see people having difficulty with search and not finding the most useful answers to their questions.

b) Partner with Microsoft (and preferably Ask as well) on the search advertising platform. The two of you now have so small market shares that many mid-size companies don’t want to bother setting up accounts with additional search engines beyond Google. A single solution that fields a company’s ads across both your networks would be much more worth the hassle of one more account.

c) Develop services that users will pay for, not just advertising-supported services. Plenty of opportunity here as well, because the free services are often substandard.

Good luck. Yahoo has always been one of the best sites on the Web, with good integration between services, and I think you have a glorious future if you continue to improve your user experience.

Scott Rodgers | June 18th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

It’s great that Yahoo has kept its founders so close to the top (and has not sold) over the years. The story continues, we’re ready…

Jeremiah Owyang | June 18th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

Congrats Jerry, I think this is a full circle for you and also for Yahoo. Wishing you the best in this new role.

Yahoo user, commenter, critic, and shareholder.

Deaf Musician | June 18th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Go Jerry! Now, when are you going to sell it to Microsoft?

Manuel | June 18th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

Dear Jerry,

I’m in love with Yahoo!..i’v been a shareholder since year 2000 and i never sold my yahoo stocks, and i will not do in the future…

But, honestly, i was really frustrated to see how Google rised…

Your job Jerry: YOU MUST CLOSE THE GAP WITH GOOGLE.

Yahoo is an excellent brand but people associate it more to entertainment and not to technological innovation…you gotta rebalance and remix that!

Best,

Manuel

Nick Gerakines | June 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

WooHoo! This is great news! Congratulations.

Jonathan Cho | June 18th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

Good luck Jerry, you’ve certainly got your work cut out for ya!

– Jonathan

David Dalka | June 18th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

Good Luck Jerry!

I’d love to help you see that vision realized!

Contact me anytime.

Joe Duck | June 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

Great news. Thanks for coming back.

With all due respect to Chris above, I want you to monetize him *better*. Chris it doesn’t matter whether you want to be monetized or not, you will be by Google, Websites, Yahoo and your own Flock (or you will fail). Even the most rabidly user centric models must monetize, die, or have a lot of people who work other jobs (e.g. Wikipedia or Mozilla). The non-profit web languished for 30 years and I don’t want that to happen again.

disclaimer: I’ve got Yahoo Stock.. Go Jerry Go!

Rajiv Doshi | June 18th, 2007 at 3:09 pm

Congratulations Jerry! This is a real opportunity for Yahoo to focus on a clear vision, lately things have been starting to head in the right direction and I excited to see it move in quicker under this new leadership.

G. Chai | June 18th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

Jerry, you’re unduly generous in your praise of Mr. Semel and Ms. Decker for their contributions/abilities. Although Mr. Semel and Ms. Decker are still not out of the picture, I hope your stepping up to the challenge facing Yahoo! is a step in the right direction for Yahoo! users, employees and shareholders. Best wishes to you.

Gary Santoro | June 18th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

We look forward the return of the Yahoo! – G.S.

EMC | June 18th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

Congratulations. Now will you tell me how to get an answer to a question about excruciatingly slow e-mail deliveries from other servers to my in-box? I’m talking 6 to 24 hours from time they are sent to time I receive them.

“Help” pages don’t even come close to addressing the problem, and there is no way ask a real live person.

Except you.

You really don’t want me to switch to Gmail, do you??

Gerald Buckley | June 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pm

AWESOME news! You have the stuff your Yahoo!s need going forward. Now, go out and get it done!

schuck | June 18th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

Tip for Mr. Yang:

Perhaps Yahoo should reconsider the manner in which it is “monetizing” its subscribers (and alienating them) through the use of ridiculously large, blinking, flashing, rotating, eye poppingly bright, and stupendously intrusive ads. See the 170+ comments in:

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/14/unlimited-storage-its-coming

If you are a harbinger of change, intent on restoring long time user loyalty, then my hearty welcome back, Mr. Yang.

JB | June 18th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Congrats Jerry — bold move. We’ll be rooting for you!

seth goldstein | June 18th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Does this mean you will open up Yahoo! to expose its social APIs a la Facebook?

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

-Seth

Drea | June 18th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

You can’t out google google – out Yahoo! them.

Google indexes other people’s content, yahoo creates content.

Create more/better content. My Yahoo!, Flickr, Video, etc..

Yihong Ding | June 18th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

This is a big news. Best wish to you. Nowadays Google is VERY aggressive. Can Yahoo catch up the gap? Again, best wishes.

– Yihong

Tony Chung | June 18th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Congratulations Jerry! Best wishes in your new position!

Erik Schwartz | June 18th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

Congrats Jer.

Erik

Bonnie Burton | June 18th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

Rock on! Best of luck to you!
Can’t wait to see what you do next!

Ronald Lewis | June 18th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

All the best, Jerry.

Sharad | June 18th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

The ultimate web will be a web full of meaningful services. Yahoo! has had a head start here and I think it needs to pursue the vision of creating more and more user-focussed, subscription/fee based services.

Strategic partnerships and consumer web-based applications is the way to go.

Business Web, enterprise 2.0 are other growth areas.

-
Sharad

Bess Ho | June 18th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

The Internet is still young. It is up to us to build the Future.

I like to thank you Yahoo for supporting us, Silicon Valley Web Builder.

We manage to rebuild our web community from loss with bare hands and running legs. We live to dream, to lead, and to win. We refuse to be labeled as “losers”.

We will continue to write Internet History along with Internet Leaders and Builders.

Web Builder will paint Purple to those believe in Purple – We dream to be “Remarkable”!

True,
Dreamer & Builder

P.S. If you fix your food quality, we come with a heart beat!

Tom Strachan | June 18th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

Jerry,

Great stuff. As a shareholder I am rooting for you.

However, what is up with yahoo mail.. Your search capabilities are very weak..

I am sorry to say I had to move over to google. Carefull. Keep investing in tech…

Chris | June 18th, 2007 at 5:25 pm

Congrats to you Jerry, and to Sue as well!

A new generation is now in charge. As a shareholder and an early user of Yahoo! 360, I hope you will focus on the technology and facilitating user generated content. Facebook anyone? If not Facebook, then please just put resources into 360.

Regards – Chris

nemrut | June 18th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

It’s about time Jerry! Now show the world what you’re capable of and rally the troops to kick some butt.

First order of business, do somehting about improving your product dev methods and creating a better user experience. The silo’d approach used currently is clearly not working..

Take risks, have fun and push hard. You’re in the prime of your life!

Hank Essay | June 18th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

I want to be monetized! Is that so wrong?

-

Matt Cutts | June 18th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

Competition is good for users, so I’m looking forward to seeing how Yahoo! goes forward from here. Congrats on your new role!

don loeb | June 18th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

congrats jerry…this is the perfect move for yahoo. i’ve been hoping this was going to happen for quite some time.

don

Tony Ruiz | June 18th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

I have a website program to put Yahoo on top of the largest single industry in the world. I’ve been calling it the “Yahoo” of the AEC industry but why not Yahoo itself. If anybody’s awake up there in that ‘ivory’ tower, call me. Open a line of communication. Pay attention and learn (again) about the outside the box thingy.

-Tony Ruiz
Address: Outside the Box

Tony Ruiz | June 18th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

Well?

Jeremy Wright | June 18th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

All the best Jerry, you have big shoes to fill, and a lot of expectations to live up to. But the Yahoo! team absolutely rocks, has some of the best assets imaginable and has a bright future as long as there is a clear and coherent vision.

Rock and roll Jerry, rock and roll :-)

Allen Stern | June 18th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

Congrats to Jerry and Sue and best wishes to Terry in whatever you do next.

Yahoo is in an interesting place today. The absolute underdog against a growing beast.

Put on the horseblinders and focus.

Good luck to Yahoo and like Matt above, I am looking forward as well to seeing where forward is for Yahoo.

Search Engine Web | June 18th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

Hopefully, there will be more interaction with the readers of the official Yahoo blog. Few know about this blog.

On Yahoo’s blog, they do not interact or engage with the readers who comment.

Even on weather updates, asking for feedback and not replying or explaining does not motivate readers to contribute.

Appearing at an occasional conference and participating in a roundtable discussion now and then is not enough.

The Yahoo search engine really has to be improved dramatically, to catch up with Google. There have been dramatic improvements over the years, but not enough to make it as competitive as possible.

Eric Jackson | June 18th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

Jerry:

You have the hearts and minds of your employees and shareholders behind you. Good luck!

Eric

Brian Park | June 18th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

Congrats Jerry. As a longtime shareholder and former Yahoo, I’m really looking forward to things to come.

Tim | June 18th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

Despite many commenter’s opinions, I believe it is NOT about beating Microsoft, MySpace, Google, or whatever the latest thing is.

Yahoo will succeed by delivering to users and/or customers what they want in ways which are useful to them. You don’t necessarily need to win, or compete, in the search space to do well.

Don’t focus on stock price- in fact, I think focusing on stock price is a guaranteed path to problems. Instead, financially restructure as necessary so that dividends become your focus – let shareholders share in the profits via dividend, rather than speculators winning via short-term moves to drive the stock price up. It seems to me a healthier long-term view.

Yahoo has proven useful to me, and some groups I’m in, by providing useful tools for community communication, calendaring, mapping, etc. – keep up the excellent work in that area along with some innovation, and you’ll be fine.

Jim Kingsland | June 18th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

Good luck Mr. Yang since you’ve got many problems to tackle.

As a former Bloomberg/CNBC/FNN broadcaster turned blogger, your Finance site is about the only area of interest that I have when I visit Yahoo!. Sadly, there are problems even there with epidemic spam on the message boards these days. Worse yet, however, is the content on your Finance site. There are so many quality points of content generation in the blogoshere that are unused by Yahoo!, and there is so much more Yahoo! Finance could do to help investors be better investors. Robert Kyosaki as a featured columnist does nothing for the person who is looking to build a nest egg, or speculate in the markets. Your Finance Yahoos! have been dropping the ball. Do you or they even have the ability to think like the average investor and be connected to what they want? Please get someone who can connect with your Finance users, or you will lose on that front to Google as well. You can aggregate content like everyone else, you can even try to generate it in house, but your Finance site must give the user the ability to create his own ideas through useful tools and non commoditized sources of information. A little free advice, on me. Thanks, JimK.

Jason Calacanis | June 18th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

Congrats Jerry… I think a product-focused entrepreneur is exactly what a company like Yahoo needs right now. Product wins, and you’ve always built amazing product… go get ‘em!

best,

Jason

Shweta Gupta | June 18th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

I am tooo happy today !!!! I am an ex-Yahoo and still love YAHOO. I have always visualized Yahoo to be one of the best companies. Like you I also have stong convinction that Yahoo will be one of the Top companies in the world. My whole hearted wishes are with YAHOO. Yahoo will prove to be the best once again and nobody can stop it from doing that.

Cory Tyler | June 18th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

Best Wishes On Becoming CHEIF-EO Yahoo, Jerry! The guys of “Can We Do That?” support you.

Wild Hoo | June 18th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

All the Best to Jerry and Yahoo!

You were my favorite search engine back in 97 over the Excite or Lyco or AOL . You had that distinct user-friendly, innovative feel. But since 2002 you somewhat lost that edge. You still are my favorite site but seems that google has been more original and innovative in recent years.

Change is good.
Good Luck!

Simon | June 18th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

Pa-nama! Pa-nama! Pa-nama!
(to the tune of De-fense! De-fense! De-fense!)

Vishal | June 18th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Hi Jerry,

All the best for your new role,Yahoo certainly has the potential.. if Yahoo can realize that the new ideas and products of the next generation are going to come from todays young youths rather then past generation execs making the decisions for them.. sure your company has a great potential.. if you continue to chase google.. you are not going to go anywhere.. you have to show the way and lead.

All the best.

秦歌 | June 18th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

加油!!!

Peter Duke | June 18th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

Yagoogle, GooHoo… it’s all goood

Mithun Sreedharan | June 18th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

Congratulations Jerry! Best wishes in your new position!
Reboot all Yahoo! Servers with ‘Innovation’

Richard Ball | June 18th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

Good luck, sir.

One thought for you regarding a “Yahoo! that better monetizes its audience.” Search is the audience to monetize better. One simple way to do that would be to allow Yahoo! Search Marketing customers the option to purchase ads on *just* Yahoo! Search.

We advertisers are losing confidence in your ad syndication network and are expressing that lack of confidence through lower bids and lower budgets. Panama is irrelevant in this regard. It’s not about the ad creation platform but the ad distribution. Google makes 99% of its revenues from advertisers. Make the advertisers happy and that revenue flows to Yahoo! instead or as well.

Less distribution but higher quality distribution is a solution. Advertisers will bid higher and will allocate more SEM ad spend to Y!SM. Yahoo! will monetize search better. Advertisers will be happy. Win-win. Again, good luck.

Prem | June 18th, 2007 at 10:19 pm

Jerry, This is great news. We look forward to a great(er) future for Yahoo! Wish you ‘All the very best’.

Ric | June 18th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

Best of luck Jerry.

Now all you need to make the company truly successful is to clean up
the management structure around Messenger.

You know who these guys are. They don’t really do any work it’s really
the people under them that work hard and make things happen. All
these guys ever do is take credit for other peoples hard work and either punish people when things don’t go right or keep hidden from upper management. I know. I see this all the time.

David Sifry | June 18th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

Congratulations, Jerry! You (and Yahoo!) have lots of fans here at Technorati.

Claude / Les Explorers | June 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm

congrats and all the best for Yahoo

Sridhar | June 18th, 2007 at 11:06 pm

Go Jerry Go!!!

Its a call for life, when you started Yahoo u had a dream and vision. Now it time to redefine it and see even bigger one!!!

Dream on!!!

We, users are always with Yahoo be it using or technically.

Cheerz
Sridhar

Matt | June 19th, 2007 at 12:33 am

Great news and good luck. I’ve always been a big fan of the Yahoo brand and hoped it would step back up to prime position for search and taxonomy led information. Yahoo have an amazing array of under promoted resources (e.g. upcoming, Del.icio.us) – they have so much potential for growth outside of the normal ‘geek’ crowd. I hope the services go mainstream and the UK is no longer treated as a third rate counterpart to the US. If you’re going to launch a service – please don’t exclude non-us countries from that launch.

Julien M | June 19th, 2007 at 1:37 am

Congrats to you Jerry !

I hope you will focus on innovation.
What about dedicating 20% of our time to “personal projects” in order to find new ideas on how to improve Yahoo… Like Google does, which brought them GoogleEarth for instance ?

Regards
Julien

Walter | June 19th, 2007 at 3:31 am

Jerry,

Do you really think that a story about being addicted to lip balm belongs as the lead title to your Yahoo page? I use your portal to get news and typically start at the front page, but if you are going to put fluff there I just won’t bother.

malique | June 19th, 2007 at 3:42 am

take over google, Jerry!

John Suder | June 19th, 2007 at 4:15 am

As a long-time shareholder and old-skool Yahoo! fan, I wish you the best of luck!

Jean | June 19th, 2007 at 4:52 am

“we won’t be satisfied until the external perception of Yahoo! accurately reflects that reality”

- dude, it THAT the measure of your success???

ugh.

Paul Robinson | June 19th, 2007 at 5:03 am

Congratulations on your new role.

Might I make a suggestion for a direction you could take?

Stop Yahoo! being a police informant in China, and helping the Chinese state police lock up people who want to tell Western media how the struggle for democracy is unfolding.

You might not think it’s important, but right now Yahoo! is heading for a legacy that is not unlike Mitsubishi’s or IBM’s in the Second World War or various companies in South Africa in the 70s and 80s.

You don’t need an ethics committee, you just need ethics.

Phani | June 19th, 2007 at 5:13 am

congrats and good luck jerry! I hope you would bring out many cool projects.

Former Yahoo! Manager | June 19th, 2007 at 5:18 am

Congrats, Jerry! There are many, many people inside and outside Yahoo! who want you to succeed. I hope you’ll look outside the circle in Sunnyvale to Dallas and NY (and elsewhere) as places of product ideas… I know there are people there bursting at the seams to help move your/our company forward.

Signed,
-A former Yahoo!

(One of those “long-termers” who recently left b/c of middle management frustration, but still loves the company)

Douglas | June 19th, 2007 at 5:25 am

Congratulations, Jerry! We need Yahoo to increase customer loyalty and satisfaction. Greater emphasis should be placed on respecting the customer and increasing the lines of communication with them. Go Yahoo!

Steve Aldreson | June 19th, 2007 at 5:41 am

Bring the “old” Finance message boards back, the new ones a disaster. They went from great to now having one of the most user-unfriendly UIs in the history of the internet.

Please.

Jack Roberts | June 19th, 2007 at 6:02 am

Bring Yahoo back Jerry !

James Martin | June 19th, 2007 at 6:57 am

Congratulations to you Jerry!

I wish you, and Yahoo – all the best for the future.

I am starting to develop web services, which are gaining popularity quickly.

I hope that in the future, I can partner with Yahoo like via Yahoo Search Marketing.

Yahoo is a fantastic company, and has done extremely well. I hope that Yahoo continues to grow and gain even more popularity in the future.

Jerry, I believe in you, and I believe you can make Yahoo grow even bigger, bigger than anybody could possibly imagine.

All the best to you and to Yahoo.

From James, 18, UK (but moving to LA soon)
jmartin678@YAHOO.co.uk

Doro Dorov | June 19th, 2007 at 7:13 am

Congrats Jeery.
Check
and get this project.
http://www.yougetit.com

Tom Vellaringattu | June 19th, 2007 at 7:28 am

Good Luck Jerry,

Hope you will be able to turn around Yahoo. You need to weed out some old blood and get some young people with ideas into the company. Also promote internal ideas from employees like google is doing.

As a yahoo publisher network partner we could see the pain. From daily $250 a day in revenue we went down recently to $10 a day and new something is amiss.

Hope you will turn around the company.

best wishes
tom v

Glenn Walker | June 19th, 2007 at 7:53 am

Setup an ad campaign under Yahoo SEM and add some customizations, then try to do the same thing in AdSense. I bet it will take about a 10th the time. I definately spend less at Yahoo SEM, just because its a pain in the A**. BTW – Flickr rocks, let that be your guide…

Sandeep | June 19th, 2007 at 8:52 am

I saw this Yahoo Ad served via Google and snipped and put it up here – http://www.kaujalgi.net/?p=55.

I am not sure if you think this is a big deal or not, but it has amused me and worried me. Does Yahoo think serving Ads through Google will bring it more traffic and what does that say about your search marketing OR is this just the age of co-opetition.

I am happy to hear what you have to say, but I guess you have to stop this kind of stuff at once.

P.S: go private

Maurizio Mazzanti | June 19th, 2007 at 9:16 am

My first email was with Yahoo!, my first published article was in 1999 to celebrate Yahoo! as “Internet company of the year” during Cannes Lions advertising festival, my mailing list with best friends in @yahoogroups.com!!!

Yahoo! is still the internet and the internet is still young!

Best wishes to all and expecially to Sue Decker!

sunzj | June 19th, 2007 at 10:12 am

Jerry,

Great announcement!

It is better than google since you can receive comments from all over the world.

Bests,

–Paul

Rey Gonzalez | June 19th, 2007 at 10:34 am

Jerry is back, great.
Now get rid of the person/persons who stopped yahoo auctions. I had been with yahoo since Sept.1999. For the first few years yahoo was good. Then someone got the bright yahoo started free auctions, I thought bad idea. When Yahoo stopped “featured auctions” I though bad idea. Then someone got the bright idea to stop auctions. Why? No revenue? All feedback or comments on yahoo auctions stopped, why? When yahoo stopped auctions altogether I stopped going to yahoo period. It might not have been the biggest money maker but at the very least it brought traffic to yahoo, users would check ebay and then check yahoo auctions. At one time yahoo auctions competed with E-Bay. And that my 2 cents worth.

Shahid | June 19th, 2007 at 10:40 am

Where Yahoo is failing and falling apart – please read – Please sell the company

If you have been carefully watching Yahoo over the past few years you have come to realize certain qualities about the firm and their products.

1. The company doesn’t realize that people are simply migrating away from using their products. The company continues to talk about its large number of users but that is not a complete picture. The number that you should focus on is the number of users in markets where Yahoo can actually focus on generating a revenue. Having millions and millions of users in markets that are not generating revenues is meaningless.

2. The company has spent no time letting non-users know about the firm. Small advertising campaigns for answers doesn’t translate to much. People need to be aware that Yahoo search is just as good as Google’s and only getting better.

3. Sales. The sales depart at Yahoo is simply pathetic. If all the same rhetoric about the company is actually true, why is it that the sales group is unable to sell ads? What is wrong with the sales group when we know how the industry is going and where Yahoo is positioned? Smaller, less recognized sites are stealing ad dollars and Yahoo is doing nothing about it.

4. Management. I’m sorry, but management completely sucks at Yahoo. This is the company that has managed to take the lead the in the internet and let it slip away. Additionally, what major unique sites has Yahoo developed that is attracting large amounts of ad dollars? Why did management wait so long to try to increase the means of monetizing search? This management group is pathetic. Look at it this way, management is constantly talking about how excited they are, and where things are headed and all of this long-term value nonsense, but management has failed to actually do anything about it. Yahoo is growing like an old media company in one of the fastest growing sectors in the world.

5. No concern for shareholders. The company is valued less then what it was 3 years ago. How the hell is the company viewing long-term growth. It’s been 3 whole years and the company is getting worse. How can you take something like Yahoo and make it this bad.

6. Google. Ignore it all you want but they are destroying Yahoo in every possibly way. What is Yahoo going to do when Google starts focusing on display ads?

My suggestion, put this company up for sale and let a more intelligent and focused management group extract value from this company. I’m sorry, but this management group, including Mr. Yang have done nothing but slowly destroy what could have been a great company. You have failed, time to let others try.

Chris Rindone | June 19th, 2007 at 11:05 am

Yahoo! was the first website I ever considered a destination. That was in 1995, and while I haven’t been completely thrilled with some of the steps along the way I’ve remained a regular user of the Yahoo! properties. This move is exciting, and I wish you, Jerry, and Ms. Decker the best as you refocus your company.

Yay for Yahoo! :-)

Chris

Shahid | June 19th, 2007 at 11:51 am

Additionally, for all those reading:

1. Management should care about the stock price.

2. Quit blaming everyone else for what has happened at Yahoo and start working to fix the problems. I cannot stand this constant perception that the only people that don’t get it is the entire world and that Yahoo gets it. The world is your audience.

3. Google has managed to find products people want and have also managed to find themselves in a position where they can do whatever they want.

4. Yahoo doesn’t advertise. Yahoo has limited advertising. Management needs to understand this simple equation. Attract a large crowd that spends money + effective advertising and partnerships = more revenue through more advertisers.

5. Existing partnerships. Yahoo has bragged about its partnerships but where is the benefit to the bottom line. You need to create partnerships for the sake of increasing revenue. One day we will hear about the 1 billion users of Yahoo and that same day you will see the stock price at $27.

6. Cut costs. The margins continue to decline despite the limited growth we have seen. How can this company continue to perform with such low margins.

7. Deliver value to shareholders. Do what is best for shareholders and sell the damn company. You need a company that can take Yahoo and make it valuable. This company was lucky because it was part of the internet boom and came out one the leaders. You shouldn’t attribute your success to your intelligence. If there is any indication how bad management has become and how they lack any foresight, look over the past 3 years. The company has screwed up far too many opportunities.

8. Finally, just do something well. What does Yahoo do really well? What are they the best at? No single product at Yahoo is “the best.” This is really sad.

At the end of the day you are a public company with the responsibility to deliver value to shareholders. You have failed. Let some other company do it.

Will Pate | June 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am

Good luck, Jerry and the Yahoo team. I’m sure many changes will be coming, here’s hoping they are all for the best.

Victor Marçais | June 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Bonjour Jerry,

Bonne chance pour votre nouveau job !

Yahoo doit reprendre le leadership sur l’innovation produit et technologique, la croissance de l’audience – via les nouveaux social networks, et bien entendu regagner des parts de marché sur le search.

N’oubliez pas l’international, et l’Europe !

good luck !

goodway | June 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm

I think it’s your boldest move ever since starting-
Go go go, and beat the dragons-
don’t ever be scared of sleepy monsters-

Shahid | June 19th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

Hey Jerry,

Company lost approximately $800 million in value after you took over….things have already started out well.

Jim Kern | June 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

Good luck Jerry, I’m excited to see that new changes that you will bring about. I still go to Yahoo as my favorite site!

Charlie C. Tan | June 19th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

Jerry

Welcome back.

Thank you for your commitment to the Net Community.

In my opinion.

Yahoo would need to iron out the internal Corporate Culture & & Politics within.

At the outset, the individual Customer’s issues need to be addressed ASAP.

Customers are the partners of a corporation success especially corporation like Yahoo!!

As I mentioned in Philips & IBM, Dell, or HP events, Change is a constant for Corporation longevity be it big or small.

Joe Duck | June 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Confusion here and with YHOO stock:

Here you clearly imply you are the “real” CEO (great news as I wrote above).

But most rumors say you are the “temporary” CEO.

My god, if this is all a play to save Mr. Semel’s or Ms. Decker’s ego this shareholder is pissed off royally.

Jerry with all due respect are you going to be CEO or NOT ?!

Anon | June 19th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

Joe — whatever rumors you heard… they’re wrong. Jerry is definitely the new CEO — not a temp. Go Yahoo!!!!!

Eric | June 19th, 2007 at 5:37 pm

Congratulations! Thanks for an awesome post – I hope you can help drive the new vision into the rest of the company.

Brion | June 19th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

Good luck Jerry!

Bahman | June 20th, 2007 at 1:30 am

Hi jerry.how are you?I’m just a young man who lives in Iran.as you know we can’t have everything that you have but i just know that more than 100% of Iranian internet users watch your site i mean http://www.yahoo.com everyday.congratulation for your management Methods.your were the best and you are still the one in the world.I hope to successful in your future more more.

Anshul Agrawal | June 20th, 2007 at 2:22 am

Good Luck!
I have always admired Yahoo.. definitely a great company…

PS: Google Finance has more updated company profile showing Jerry as the new CEO whereas the Yahoo Finance Profile still shows Terry as the CEO… You may want to fix it

elli | June 20th, 2007 at 4:16 am

Congratulations,

Speedbug | June 20th, 2007 at 5:32 am

Hey Jerry,

Congratulations!

We have been waiting for this from a long time. Time to show some aggresion from Yahoo! Gang.

Cheesr!

Love Yahoo! Love Life!

Antonio E. Da Silva Campos | June 20th, 2007 at 5:54 am

Jerry Yang

Le felicito a usted y a David Filo, estamos muy agradecidos por crear Yahoo!

Creo que las criticas sobre su persona son exageras. Suerte!

Escribemso esto: Continuan los cambios en Yahoo! http://www.con-cafe.com/index.php/2007/06/20/continuan-los-cambios-en-yahoo/

Nos gustaria conocer su opinión.

Un fuerte abrazo.

Antonio E. Da Silva Campos
+ 58 412 469 61 08
+ 58 414 346 14 62

Pat | June 20th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

The best way to lose any and all user passion for Yahoo! — the last really big, original, passionate, user-friendly Internet brand….

===
From IAB SmartBrief:
“Will Murdoch trade MySpace for Yahoo! stake?
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch reportedly is considering swapping his MySpace site for a 25% stake in Yahoo! while still pursuing his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. Yahoo! did not comment on the story, which first appeared today in the News Corp.-owned Times of London. ” link>>
===

I know there may be challenges, but News Corp is not the answer. Yahoo! is awesome! You will never hear people say that about News Corp, or many other big dogs for that matter. We love Yahoo!…be Yahoo! I started my internet life with you. The others are gone; please stay.

nael mohammad | June 20th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

Good luck, give a google a run and leap frog them many times to become #1.

The next thing should be focused on is yahoo 3.0 with the convergance of mobile web services and media indepent platform technologies.

Yahoo 3.0 ! The way to search!

-nael

Zacharias | June 20th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

If web 3.0 is emerging, that means someone has web 4.0 on a napkin. The kazillion-dollar napkin.

Very much congratulations. I couldn’t imagine the power(/responsibility) Y!’s CEO would wield in plotting out where the web is going to end up.

Jonathan | June 20th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

Truly some amazing news there. Congrats on the new job and I look forward to seeing what Yahoo! will do next!

Patrick | June 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

Jerry,

welcome back to take the helm of your founded company. Actually I don’t mind to see Filo to take over CTO also. Why not?

the moment you become the CEO of Yahoo! I already feel Yahoo is more geek, which I dubbed “The Jerry’s Effect”

best of luck
Patrick

David | June 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

Congrats,

Now your job is to make things more intriguing. I stopped using Yahoo 360 because it was not as user friendly for the more geeked out of your customers. I switched to Wordpress, but would gladly come back if things get better with more of the flexibility that they have. I try not to use the G thing when ever possible…but they really are coming out with some great stuff. You do not have to imitate, just innovate. I stick with Yahoo, because you really were the first to give so much for free. Integrate Flicker a bit better with MyYahoo, but do not ruin it, as well as del.icio.us. I would like to see better integration with my MyYahoo page as well with the rest of the Yahoo stable of products.

I stay faithfully devoted to Yahoo!

David in Antelope CA.

Shaojun | June 20th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

Gongxi Gongxi :)

Fawaz Iqbal | June 20th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

I have been a Yahoo!er since 10 years now ever since I was graduating from High school and I can’t believe that I m still with you. Well this is the truth. I love Yahoo! and I wish Jerry lots a success in the future.

IPTV | June 21st, 2007 at 1:00 am

congratulations and all the best !!!!

Sahibinden | June 21st, 2007 at 3:35 am

This is great news!
Congratulations for your new job.

Claude RANAIVO | June 21st, 2007 at 6:36 am

Congratulations Jerry ! Welcome back home.

I’ve been admiring Yahoo! since I discover the Beta more than 12 years ago.
Terry has done an impressive job and I sure you will do the same.

Claude. (France)

Darren (NYC) | June 21st, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Great narrative Jerry…

I have seen Y! rise through the ranks – from when the internet was just a baby back in 1995 right through till now, where there is all sorts of challenges and way less barriers to entry than there was 12 years ago. I remember when I was living in Melbourne, Australia and Y! opened its offices in Sydney. My partner and I actually got the gig for creating the first ever banner ads on Yahoo Australia that were no more than animated GIFs at the time… we even created our own business called “Banner Builders”!!

I am now based in New York and working on the new type of internet that is now very lucrative and is definately heading where the “old internet will go”… mobile.

I hope that Yahoo will continue to be the great portal that it has always been – I do use Google for search, but I use Yahoo for everything else…

Good luck in the new role.

Darren P.
New York, NY
21 June 2007

LoveYourDNA | June 21st, 2007 at 9:20 pm

…so what’s the difference between Chief Yahoo and CEO anyway???

atul abraham | June 22nd, 2007 at 2:32 am

welcome back !, congrats and all the best !, atul abraham, CEO, Instantwebmeetings AS, Norway

Jordan Young | June 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 am

I have a great idea. I think Yahoo! should acquire Zillow.com that would be a great way to get things started Jerry. Zillow is the leader in instant real estate valuations. I think it would be a great acquisition for Yahoo! because Yahoo’s competitor Google is making acquisitions that are a huge part of there growth. They acquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion and they announced an acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion. Yahoo! needs to catch up and make some acquisitions. I think its great that Yahoo! is acquiring rivals.com keep up the good work and remember acquisitions is a great way for faster growth.

Diamantis Kyriakakis | June 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 am

Good luck in your new job :)
Congratulations!

Greetings from greece

Diamantis K.

Web Developer, Web Designer
Radio Producer

Daniel | June 22nd, 2007 at 2:20 pm

Jerry,
Good luck as Yahoo!’s new CEO! Lets make some great changes!

Daniel Richard | June 24th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

Great Yodel there! Let’s make Yahoo! a fun and dynamic web site for all of the users. Expecting some explosive and exciting changes ahead. :)

All the best Jerry!

Aibek Esengulov | June 25th, 2007 at 6:08 am

Congrats Jerry !

Y! already have made an excellent move by focusing on existing products by closing down competing properties.

Hope you will be able to continue this process and get “!” sign back where it belongs

Patiently waiting.

Sam | June 27th, 2007 at 10:50 am

Yahoooooooooooo! Congratulations Jerry! Lets kick the big G’s butt.

Rahadian N Agung | June 28th, 2007 at 11:16 am

i’m just wondering, how come yahoo never considering to open office rep in my country Indonesia, its pretty hard if we wanna advertise with yahoo. Not that hard thou…but we have to contact s’pore, costly and too complicated :)

c’mon…new ceo…check out my country!

Kevin Paulson | June 29th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

My two hopes are that you will rebuild hotjobs into the company that it once was and you will continue to provide a great product and provide the best news possible!

Congratulations!!!!

mohsenr1 | July 6th, 2007 at 5:44 am

good-wishes Mr Yang! I hope to sucsses!

Yarn | July 8th, 2007 at 6:03 am

Wow – this is very exciting news! Congratulations.

Peter Sydney | July 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm

Yahoo in the next five years is going to make Google look tame. Jerry Yang is too competitive and inventive to let all the negative opinions in the market let him get down. The last two years have been a consolidation period around which Yahoo will now take its rightful historical position as both the leading internet (re)search AND advertising portal. Institutions like JP Morgan and other leading investment/banking institutions know this and soon the overall market will know this despite some near term weathered times. If anyone follows Prince Al-Tawals strategy, who loves to invest in great brands that may be temporaily on a down slope they will see the same result. He has done this with Apple and I would not be surprised that Yahoo would fit a similar description. I see Yahoo stock hitting 100 plus (if not split) within 2 to 3 years. Detractors and Google fanatics beware. Jerry is back.

iddaa | July 13th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

good news. i hope everything will work fine for you

Christian Dean | July 17th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

I noticed Yahoo started going down the tube when two certain things took place.

1) Spam bots completely took over the yahoo online chat, essentially making it worthless, and I mean worthless. It drove off 90% of the people that normally chatted online. This KILLED yahoo.

2) Yahoo took away the News message boards. Previously, millions of users would rely on yahoo for frontpage news because it was nice to click on the news article and then you could post messages in a specific message board that accompanied the news article.

I no longer visit yahoo.com anymore for those two reasons. I’m sure there are MILLIONS of more out there that feel the same as I do.

Matthew Polly | July 17th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

Hi Jerry,

I have never owned Yahoo! stock, but you guys were the first ones to make sense of the web, and for that we owe you. I just hope you can step it back up. Let me just tell you what I use Yahoo! for and what I’ve been impressed with lately.

I use Yahoo! most meaningfully for yp.yahoo.com and the new Yahoo! Local perspective hints at a promise (and Travel section too). (You need to facilitate more user reviews–the thing that makes Amazon so valuable.)

I love the new short 2-5 minute Yahoo! videos from bcst.yahoo.com. Like You Tube, but more informative. Great for the color commentary of life. Like the news, but looser and more real.

I’ve always thought Yahoo! tries to do too much. That it needs more focus. Here’s a quick organizing principle … imagine that a person uses something from which to launch (and navigate) their day, be it holiday or work day. Could Yahoo! home page (when their signed in!) possibly be their embarkation point? Daily planner, communication (email, phone messages), time-spatial organizer (directions, time cues), contextual extender (understand who they are and widen their reality by introducing them to new and MEANINGFUL experience).

I know that’s kind of far out, but you have to make yourself relevant to how we live our daily lives.

Best wishes! I’ve always been a big fan, and seriously considered applying to work for you guys (in a past professional life)…

Dr.Subramonian | July 31st, 2007 at 3:05 am

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Susanna Cheng | August 4th, 2007 at 1:43 am

Dear Jerry,

Thank you so much for your help in passing my complaint email to the Yahoo.com Customer Service. The problems with my email account have now been fixed and I hope that improvements will be made at Yahoo.com very soon.

Once again, thanks for your prompt action on passing my email.

Best Wishes always,
Susanna Cheng

iddaa tahmini | August 5th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

Great news and good luck. I hope everything will work fine for you. My best wishes!

Dugu | August 8th, 2007 at 9:12 am

Great. Great. Great.
Wish you all the best, my friend.

MustySoba | August 22nd, 2007 at 5:50 am

Wao! Congrats, Jerry! I trust you’ll be up to the task, and make Yahoo! stay on top. Nigeria uses Yahoo! as much as anywhere in the world! I love your setup. Keep it up & up…..

RT | August 23rd, 2007 at 10:33 pm

I love yahoo and now more than ever I believe the future is yours. Definitely love the improved search results, answers, omg, and the content in general. The slow email needs some tweaking, the finance page is way more informative than google’s but the charts are not. you definitely need to rework 360 or is it true you’re working on another one? Im forced to use gmail and google finance untill Y! can rise up to the challenge in those arenas. PS: my every saved penny is being spent on YHOO and I hope your hard work pays off soon.

PS: I could have told you about social networking four years ago, here was Y! then. Couldnt anyone see the future?

I love Y! :)

peace.

aditi | September 15th, 2007 at 5:54 am

Hi,

One idea — you should give mail.yahoo.com some new name like mail.blueYahoo.com so that it comes before mail.google.com in the saved links of IE. I believe that it will increase the traffic.

Regards,
Aditi

Silver Nose Pins | September 21st, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Wish you all the best!

Frank Coffey | October 21st, 2007 at 9:23 am

Hi Jerry,
We reported the following today in our Rumor Mill column and although as certified professional journalists we publicly can’t take a position, privately we offer kudos.
Cheers,
Frank

RUMOR MILL
Boo-Hoo Wahoo. Yahoo! will reportedly purchase the Cleveland Indians and re-name the team’s mascot Chief Yahoo! “It was a marketing opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” said CEO Jerry Yang.

Hip Hop Klamotten | November 26th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

I love the new short 2-5 minute Yahoo! videos from bcst.yahoo.com. Like You Tube, but more informative. Great for the color commentary of life. Like the news, but looser and more real.

gazeteler | December 12th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Wish you all the best!

Amitava | February 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 am

Jerry I request you to please don’t sell Yahoo. Its really a great company …

Jorge S. Fuentes | February 21st, 2008 at 3:23 pm

I cannot find any words that would describe my opinion on Mr. Terry Semel’s resignation.

It would not surprise me if the reason why there has been a reduction on profit is due mostly to customer share. Yes, there is also a reduction due to the increased costs but that can be overcome from within by reducing them, or by moving resources to production that will keep and increase customers now and in the future.

Please change the meaning of Yahoo! on that dictionary and if you loose geeks get some Mensans.

I am own some shares from Yahoo! and I am going to keep them.

Keep up the good work!

videolar | March 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Congratulations for your new job.
Regards

Shilpak | March 16th, 2008 at 12:41 am

Hi Jerry,

I just wanted to say you that please don’t surrender to M’s offer as if it happens we will miss something really original – that’s Yahoo!!

You people have invented this logo Yahoo!!…with some exciting fonts and style (and of course smileys!!)Which eventually G copied, so don’t lose on that originality.

Anyways as far as competition with G is concerned it’s actually very natural that some day some where you are going to face competition and the fact that somebody is trying to compete you itself proves your might.

Anyways G’s strategy is simple…see it’s not possible for them to reach where they are today without you

they have just copied all the way down and presented it in a very Simple form .For example some similarities :-

User Interface :-

 1.YAHOO logo purple in colour –G somewhat same style ,look and feel (like Yahoo) only they have made it multi coloured and simple to human eye

Search :-

 1.When I search for ‘Tom Cruise’ on G ,i get 10 results on first page and i get 10 more page links where i can navigate.

 When i search for ‘Tom Cruise’ on Yahoo again i get 10 results on first page and i get 10 page links where i can navigate

so the big question !! where is the difference -

Answer is SIMPLICITY

G is very smart they have just taken almost 80% from you and rest 20 % they have invested in making their product more and more simple ….just something different form you. for instance

 1.On every search page there are page links for more pages like 2,3,4,5,6,7 …Next …..and so on.

 Yahoo has represented this in the form of traditional old looking ‘button’ control but G has represented them in the form of links no old looking buttons .

 Most important point If you watch carefully when we enter http://www.G.com on any browser we see a huge G logo with a search bar (focus is purely on search) all other things like mail,orkut are somewhere on the the top left corner.

 Whereas when we enter http://www.yahoo.com ,there is a big Yahoo logo with a search bar but all other things like mail,messenger,world new local news are also prominently displayed as a result user mind is divereted

 When a user comes to search he or she is only interested in searching and not anything else so try to keep users focus purely on searching by dedicating a separate page altogether for search .

Some poets that can really help

1.Keep Yahoo search a complete different page don’t club it with yahoo mail, messenger and if still you want to do so then give it secondary importance.

2.Follow a three pronged approach Yahoo search,Yahoo mail,Messenger because these three are your babies and you have to treat them independently and with great care

3.Try to reach out more and more people

4.Most important make your User Interface more more simple ,as you had come with this unique YAHOO !! logo try to come up with something new like this truly original masterpiece.

5.Come up with something dynamic,new age look,pls change your dull,boring UI ASAP.

iddaa | April 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am

Great news and good luck. I hope everything will work fine for you. My best wishes!

Jajati Badu | April 4th, 2008 at 10:47 am

I remember,in 1998 when i entered to an internet cafe i had opened http://www.yahoo.com. It was the first link for me to the interent world. From that day it is with me.

So don’t mix yahoo with google. I will not suggest you how to improve yahoo because you know it very well how to improve yahoo that others.Just take yahoo to the pinnacle again.

tv izle | May 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Jerry I request you to please don’t sell Yahoo. Its really a great company …

Yarn Paradise | May 29th, 2008 at 1:32 am

really great great job.
regards

Rose Yeager | June 5th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

I wish you the best and hope that you are more open to HEARING what yahoo users have to say; whether it is to do with yahoo homepage or email.
I have been with yahoo for over 12 years. Yahoo.com was my homepage until recently forced to have Yahoo Canada (boring) and although yahoo.com has gone through a few changes whether we appreciated them or not, now our email has changed and if you read the blogs, most users are not enjoying the experience. For the “normal every day user”- email can be a valuable tool however if the simplicity and user friendly use of the email has become rather more complex leaning towards business applications, what type of patronage is Yahoo attempting to sustain? When an email becomes complex for the “average Joe” and both sender and receiver of the emails become frustrating, it is clearly a program that is of no value.
I personally hope you return to the “old classic” version as it was prior to the “new classic” that may age faster than anyone realizes.

TJA | June 8th, 2008 at 2:15 am

Jerry –

We love this company!!!

Yahoo is a MEDIA COMPANY. Not search, not software, not technology.

Icahn is a ruthless jerk – he couldn’t care less about Yahoo customers, employees or longterm shareholders. He’s in it for ‘the trade’ and to have fun kicking the shit out of another management team that doesn’t fit his image. He doesn’t realize, or care, that his actions will ruin the company.

Microsoft will destroy Yahoo – make no mistake. Icahn doesn’t care about this either. He wants a piece of the $50 billion cash that MS foolishly keeps on its balance sheet. He sees Ballmer as the greater fool.

MS will always fail in the media space. Not in their DNA. Look at MSNBC. Look at MSN. And the millions invested over the years to acquire ‘content’. MS is terrible at media, yet they will never admit failure.

The bankers and arbitrageurs are using Yahoo as a means to release $3-4 billion of MS’s cash for themselves.

Stay strong my friend. Forget search. Forget software and tools. Stay focused on media. Nobody on the net does it better than Yahoo.

Best regards.

iddaa | June 11th, 2008 at 3:32 am

Congratulations! Thanks for an awesome post – I hope you can help drive the new vision into the rest of the company.

Lax | June 17th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

hi Yang,

Congratulations dude.

Yang Yung | June 20th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Give it up already. There’s no way but down for you, Yang.

OP Founder | June 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am

Jerry,

I’m not hearing the best things about Yahoo, but then again I am not in Yahoo and so I do not know whats going on.

What I expect is happening is, you met with certain congress people to see if Google could buy Yahoo, without it creating a monopoly but this is a shot in the dark from the little info I have of whats going on.

I would like to offer you my services, no charge, in business development.

My you can see what I have been working recently at http://www.ourplanet-retreats.com

You can look at this as, a minnow talking to a giant but I woudl not offer my services if I did not think I had something to offer.

I simply think Yahoo NEEDS to stay strong, to compete with Yahoo all the way.

sachin khobragade | June 25th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

congrats & good luck jerry!

Honest | June 28th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

This is good news. I hope everything will work fine for you.Thanks_

Emperor | June 28th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

thank you really fine.

Sahin | July 7th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Thankss

Michael | July 12th, 2008 at 9:49 am

You and Yahoo grew rapidly, yes that was a challenge to grasp the entity of the Internet with the variety of people from all over the globe. I appreciated this awakening of spirit. Now theres new challenges beyond the Internet and Yahoo needs to consider this as a new motivation. Not that Yahoo must change its prime directive being a major Search Engine is beneficial in more ways. It is this path that encourages membership and success that Yahoo has so long enjoyed. Yahoo must be creative to spin its own success story, we the users can merely comment and suggest solutions, this does not get the ball rolling. America is hurt by those whom do not care about development and recourse. Computing swings show how hurt American’s really being hurt by the big guys, Microsoft in particular has driven on its own trendy motion allowing death of software and computing standards. Why should I believe this is not the same sort of blunder Yahoo is undertaking. As the CEO you can define the Yahoo Corporate for the Board to consider the future in America and still have value to the global operations. Leadership did not drive a dream to the Internet to succeed, marginal awareness at large contributed Yahoo’s story. It was certainly not eBay’s Auction site, it was certainly not Microsoft, it was certainly not religion, and it was not from the government operations of any nation. Awareness is the key to understanding the value of the future, deductibility affects everyone and free enterprise is this key.

Auctioning is not a key as we saw eBay grossed from fake-good sales and had to pay the consequences for their misappropriations when a French court charged them $61 million for their misbehavior to one company. This is not the end of the matter, nor was it a first. The fashion company, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, is home to such prestigious brands as Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Fendi, Emilio Pucci and Marc Jacobs; sells brands directly, eBay claimed LVMH did not like eBay’s auction business model, which was a new attempt to manage brands LVMH was contracted for and their argument is invalid as fake-goods is the issue the French court argued. If someone wanted to sell these brands they should include them not make them the main reason for the sale. Illicit sales of perfumes is just one category back in 2005 a Paris court ordered Google to pay 200,000 euros ($260,000 USD) over a breach of trademark of Louis Vuitton requiring Google to stop their advertisements for Louis Vuitton’s rivals when Web users typed Vuitton’s name into the search engine. So hereto we see how important a search engine really is to the user’s. It is sad that American’s are still exposed to the issues eBay turns its cheek towards its own success, I myself was ripped off by a fake-good auction.

Social impact has government shaken by the housing mortgage foreclosure issue in America, now to decide the fate of two companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac whom hold mortgages on millions of properties and those people are without homes, no Yahoo connectivity. What the government should have done was create a new housing solution which kicked in if a homeowner was unable to meet demands of mortgages and would intern the home/property into a Institutional Housing Plan. A plan which would lean more to the lender on a average scale not one on one as it was. But when the issue really is money owed to foreign nations from their buy in to the mortgage(s) it makes it almost impossible to get a average as that debt is outstanding and needs to be handled first so laws must be presented to make adjustment against failure thus insuring that debt which has not been the matter.

Yahoo has been and should remain a strong supporter for everyone with Internet access. With new Internet WiFi Hotspots at large user’s are capable to connect to Yahoo anytime just as they can with anyother website. Minor comments can be managed through their cellphones that support wireless for Yodel Anecdotal and a branch supporting categories does present user’s the capability to respond to almost any topic written on. As of yet I do not find a topic where Yahoo is interested for Energy and the Electric Automobile or its need in America. As CEO you should try to endorse a specific category for user’s to endorse, their comments are important to their needs. I do not see this as a trend and not a general category, I find in search of ycorpblog only four results when searching for Electric Cars. I do see government avoiding Electric Vehicles as it funds oil/gasoline businesses to try to get them to lower prices which is not going to happen and it is not a sole problem caused by OPEC. Paying $20 or more for five gallons of gasoline appears to be here to stay the length of the future as other alternative fuel development and distribution begins forcing consumer;’s to endorse yet another resource when electricity is here already and can be generated by many means. Just how does a homeowner cope when there’s no plug and their insurance company has yet to write into policy a alternative fuel vehicle presence in its garage which can inadvertently affect other homeowners in the neighborhood during a sever weather incident like a tornado, hurricane, flood and don’t tell me they need the other type coverage as it does not mention alternative vehicles either. I encourage you to consider making a Yahoo Electric Vehicle and get the ballgame started as soon as possible to answer these questions and concerns for Yahooligan’s. This is the challenge, not competitive, people already own vehicles so why not endorse making their own vehicle an electric to diminish with success pollutants and increase material recycling of the debris removed from their vehicles not needed. If Yahoo can only envision a totally new vehicle I do not oppose it and believe in Yahoo to the extent of making that a viable future to address.

Ahse | July 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

Thanks for reading..

Kirklareli | August 5th, 2008 at 6:47 am

thanks for writing.

islamiyet sohbet | August 10th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

One idea — you should give mail.yahoo.com some new name like mail.blueYahoo.com so that it comes before mail.google.com in the saved links of IE. I believe that it will increase the traffic.

iddaa | August 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I wish you, and Yahoo – all the best for the future.

ice yarn | September 17th, 2008 at 6:16 am

You have the hearts and minds of your employees and shareholders behind you. Good luck!

iddaa | September 24th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Congrats Jerry… Best wishes.

kadın | September 25th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

thank you really fine.

Holzspielzeug | October 1st, 2008 at 2:18 am

Congrats Jerry!
I wish you only the best and hopefully it is that what you estimated!

Kochmesser | October 1st, 2008 at 2:19 am

Jerry oh my god :)
Nice article, may you will be happy with your new job.
Keep on, you will make it :)

spor | October 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Congrats Jerry… Best wishes.

iddaa | October 19th, 2008 at 8:06 am

Its a call for life, when you started Yahoo u had a dream and vision. Now it time to redefine it and see even bigger one!!!

iddaa tahmin | October 20th, 2008 at 12:38 am

good-wishes Mr Yang! I hope to sucsses!

iibfmezunu | November 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 am

This is good news. I hope everything will work fine for you.Thanks_

Hosting | November 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 am

It’s good news

komik videolar | December 11th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

One idea — you should give mail.yahoo.com some new name like mail.blueYahoo.com so that it comes before mail.google.com in the saved links of IE. I believe that it will increase the traffic.

iddaa | December 12th, 2008 at 12:48 am

thanks for writing.

pictures | December 15th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

that’s a good news

sicaveittee | December 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Hi all!

As a fresh ycorpblog.com user i only want to say hello to everyone else who uses this site :>

sicaveittee | December 18th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Hello

As a fresh ycorpblog.com user i just want to say hello to everyone else who uses this board 8-)

Emlak | December 25th, 2008 at 7:52 am

in my opinion it would be a great acquisition for Yahoo! because Yahoo’s competitor Google is making acquisitions that are a huge part of there growth.
Regards

Decapper | January 4th, 2009 at 12:12 am

Jerry Jerry, it seems you have your work cut out for you with google doing over 60% of all seaches on the internet. Even such things as the google toolbar is hard to beat. They seem to have it all covered at all ends. Not saying that is no room for improvement because there always is, but you have to rather push in the same direction head for a different direction. Thats what got google where it is today. The page ranking system keeps sites like http://www.pricelessweddings.com.au (mine) at bay unless you pay heavy cost for advertising. Maybe you could come up with a different way to index pages as this is what google pushed at the start and it worked for them as you already know. I’m not sure what you will do or have planned but the best of luck on your new field.

Regards
B. Dodd

Guillermo | April 17th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

Hey Jerry, what are you doing outside?, common, back to the job

iddaa | May 6th, 2009 at 5:55 am

I wish you, and Yahoo – all the best for the future

led ekran | May 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

This is good news.
i hope everything will work fine for you.
Thanks

Richard Vanderhurst | May 19th, 2009 at 4:45 am

Yahoo is doing great right now… keep up the good work Jerry!

Yeast | July 11th, 2009 at 1:59 am

One idea — you should give mail.yahoo.com some new name like mail.blueYahoo.com so that it comes before mail.google.com in the saved links of IE. I believe that it will increase the traffic.

Martin | August 4th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

I wish you all the best!

Regards,
Martin

Alex | September 6th, 2009 at 6:25 am

hope everything goes ok I wish you all the best.

Alex

Frank Polenose | September 7th, 2009 at 3:14 am

All the best – hope all has and continues to go well.

Frank

Mehmet Kabataş | September 14th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Google has managed to find products people want and have also managed to find themselves in a position where they can do whatever they want …

komik videolar | September 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

I have been a Yahoo!er since 10 years now ever since I was graduating from High school and I can’t believe that I m still with you.

kinder elektroauto | September 25th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

i wish you the best,

Emlak | September 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

it would be a great acquisition for Yahoo.

fiyatları | September 30th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

All the best – hope all has and continues to go well.

Sahibinden Araba | October 5th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

I have been a Yahoo!er since 10 years now ever since I was graduating from High school and I can’t believe that I m still with you

Mehmet Kabataş | October 12th, 2009 at 11:58 am

I wish you only the best and hopefully it is that what you estimated….

Sahibinden | October 20th, 2009 at 3:22 pm

love the new short 2-5 minute Yahoo! videos from bcst.yahoo.com. Like You Tube, but more informative. Great for the color commentary of life. Like the news, but looser and more real

ingilizce türkçe cümle çeviri | November 5th, 2009 at 3:50 am

You have the hearts and minds of your employees and shareholders behind you. Good luck!

komik videolar | November 22nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm

This is good news. i hope everything will work fine for you. Thanks

Kral Oyun | December 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm

hey i wish you the best

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All the best – hope all has and continues to go well.

Satılık | December 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

hi Congratulations! Thanks for an awesome post – I hope you can help drive the new vision into the rest of the company

Araba | December 30th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

I wish you only the best and hopefully it is that what you estimated

ssk | December 30th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

I wish you only the best and hopefully it is that what you estimated

İkinci El Oto | January 8th, 2010 at 7:02 pm

This is good news. i hope everything will work fine for you. Thanks

ssk hizmet dökümü | January 8th, 2010 at 7:04 pm

I wish you all the best!

Seo | January 8th, 2010 at 7:24 pm

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