Google's Marissa Mayer Named Yahoo CEO

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Interesting... maybe Yahoo can turn it around.

Yahoo Inc. YHOO -0.60% on Monday named longtime Google Inc. GOOG -0.28% executive Marissa Mayer to be its next chief executive, as the onetime Internet pioneer tries to reverse its downward course.

Yahoo was being run by interim CEO Ross Levinsohn after the exit earlier this year of Scott Thompson over some misstated credentials.

The 37-year-old Ms. Mayer was a 13-year veteran at Google, most recently serving as its vice president of local and maps, where she oversaw product management, engineering design and strategy for the company's geographical products, including Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat and Street View. She also curated the Google Doodle program, celebrating special events on Google's homepage.
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Google's Marissa Mayer Named Yahoo CEO - WSJ.com
 


avatar33 said:
A chick? I don't know man...
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She was #20 employee at Google. One of the most respected women in Tech. She has been a critical piece of Google since the beginning.

Yahoo has become just a content farm and lost their innovation and direction. Google needs competition.

Huge win for Yahoo, IMO... just for the intel.
 
VelocityEmail said:
That is a huge pickup for Yahoo. Wonder how google's stock will react to this news.
Or if Google is going to go after her since she knows the in workings of Google, potential lawsuits?
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Google has poached executives in the past. In fact, it got in a legal dispute with Paypal after poaching executives to run Google Wallet.
 
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I met her once at a Search Conference.

Sure I was hitting on her. Had no idea who she was at the time.
 
pocketrockets said:
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She was #20 employee at Google. One of the most respected women in Tech. She has been a critical piece of Google since the beginning.

Yahoo has become just a content farm and lost their innovation and direction. Google needs competition.

Huge win for Yahoo, IMO... just for the intel.
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lol I know I know...

It's just the gay webmaster in me that refuses to think a hot blonde chick can be good at the internet game.
 
ly2 from WF said:
can yahoo please die already. it's never going to make a comeback, the search is trash, they operate it like some kind of second class sptware company. My fucking address bar has been hijacked for almost a year now by yahoo and the only way to fix it is to reinstall firefox. the company is complete shit.
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Fuck off ly2. All my sites that got raped by Penguin are now 1st page on Yahoo lol so I really hope this blonde chick makes good sandwiches for the programmers cuz we need Yahoo back in the game fast!
 
^nigga's got a point, however history has shown us that when 2 big tech companies compete they tend to take 2 different routes and try to prove whose model is the best. We've seen this with the browser wars, OS wars, etc... so I'm pretty sure whatever doesn't work for Google will still work for Yahoo, and vice versa.
 
Good move for Yahoo and I'll bet the stock spikes. Seems kinda of scary for Google because she just walked away with a ton of big G business direction and knowledge. I think Yahoo has treated search like a commodity and could care less allowing Bing to deal with it. I'd suspect with her they lean more towards big data apps and cloud apps in the future. Yahoo is the king with Hadoop and alot of startups building up around it. It's going to take awhile to get Yahoo back as a tech leader.
 
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