Comments on: Yang replaces Semel as Yahoo CEO

Terry Semel steps down one week after shareholders blast him over search company's financial performance.

[n3td3v]

If Yahoo want to be popular

They will need to make Google their search engine.

Before Yahoo decided to be its own search engine everything was brilliant for Yahoo.

As soon as they dropped Google as their search engine, everyone went to Google to use search and clicked on Google's ads and not Yahoo's.

If you want consumers to click your ads again, bring back Google as your search engine.

[slvrghost2]

'bout time . . .

Aside from the funky log-in/censorship issues with some of Yahoo's affiliates, I have, today, gone for seven hours without a news feed update. Problems? Okay, but fix 'em for God's sake!

I just migrated to Google after six years with a Yahoo home page. I got an idea that I won't be the last.

[Lemonhed]

Will some sensible design be possible now?

Maybe Yahoo's dismal performance in their beta concepts will improve now too.

How many "upgrades" have destroyed products that were working just fine? Too many. And now ads in the AT&T Yahoo email interface? That seems to have ticked off quite a number of people. I know I left them as my ISP, but due to better deals 'elsewhere', I opted to leave them as a phone service provider too. I hope they learn a lesson from bonehead moves like double-dipping on their customers. A free service needing ads is a well accepted standard, but never a paid service. If you are ticked like me, I recommend sending them a message with your wallet.

[saa001]

Too late

While looking at the time line for Semels work, I noticed that in about 2004 things started going downhill for Yahoo (about the time they stopped using Googles search for Yahoo).

Then their spam filters started letting massive amounts of spam through. Then they had their disastrous Yahoo mail beta.

One thing after another and they lost any prominence they had. Yahoo is now just another has been and a third rate one at that. I doubt that they could ever recover. The only thing I use Yahoo for now is for their groups, everything else Google does better (heck, even Hotmail does a better job at email than Yahoo now).

Semel gutted Yahoo and they paid him very well to do so.

[saa001]

One other thing

Talking about problems, My Yahoo page was consistently deleted by Yahoo for about three months straight. I got tired of waiting for them to fix the problem.

Google is what Yahoo COULD HAVE been.