Comments on: Is Yang right to run Yahoo?

Company co-founder will likely be an "interim" CEO, with President Sue Decker on deck, observers say.
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[n3td3v]

Bring back Google search on Yahoo!

Everyone stopped using Yahoo when Yahoo dropped Google as their search engine.

Bring back Google as Yahoo's search engine, at least for the short term, while you work out a new long term business strategy/model.

Yahoo should drop the idea of being a media and content web site and get back to grass roots.

The guy from Warner ruined Yahoo's original business, its time for Yang to bring Yahoo back to basics again, and save the company anymore embarrassments.

[niravabhavsar]

Yang might be the right person.

Nobody else could have been perfect for this job than Yang. He is been in the industry for 12 years and has 4% share in the company. This should give him enough reasons to motivate him to do a turn-around for Yahoo!. think about Apple and Dell. It wasn't until their founders came back that they became industry leaders. Based on the exposure he would have gotten being the "chief yahoo" and working closely with top management; he would surely be able to do it.

[oxtail01]

Another uninformed, racially biased article

Where the hell you came up with the conclusion that Yang "lacks Semel's management expertise and business sense". On what basis do you make this claim except for the fact that Yang doesn't neatly fit into your narrow perception of what a top manager should be? In other words "white"?

[michaelo1966]

Uh...

I think they took this from some Forrester researcher named Charlene Li, who -- given the name -- I strongly doubt harbors anti-Asian feelings.

Where that analyst probably got it from, which is equally stupid, is that Yang is "only" a company founder and engineer, rather than a professional MBA-type. As far as I can see the only skill professional MBA-s seem to have is cashing large paychecks while "winding down" businesses others have created.

[elinormills]

Race is not an issue

Semel was co-CEO of Warner Brothers, where he worked for 24 years; he had management stints at other companies and serves on numerous boards; and at 64 has much more management experience than Yang, 38, who led Yahoo for a short while in its early days when it was much smaller. The same could be said of David Filo, who is caucasian.