Yang resigns from all positions at Y

[rcjordan]

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120117006946/en/Yahoo%21-Announces-Resignation-Jerry-Yang

Geez, who knew he was still there?

[Brad]

With or without Yang's help, Yahoo has been run into the ground.  Yang should have left 12 years ago.

[I, Brian]

Come on, Yahoo, get pushing your search marketing side and produce a rival to Adsense. Microsoft, too!

[Brad]

They tried that with typical Y! sexy name: Yahoo Something Something Network Something.  Like all Yahoo projects it got 3 months of hype and effort and then languished, unfinished and ignored for 2 more years until somebody finally killed it.

[TallTroll]

It's not directly relevant, but one of my friends just got laid off by Y! He was working in the maps division, then got pruned in a headcount reduction exercise. Then it turned out that a different section had sacked too many people, and no longer had the headcount to complete their project, so he was offered a temp contract there. Because they were so far behind schedule, the whole section (including him) were given a 50% salary bonus. Awesome

[littleman]

Was it Yang who said it was okay for them to be in number two position?  What a stupid thing to say...  I remember when Y dumped Inktomi (basically ruining the company's value) and then bought them up for a couple of dollars a share.  It seemed brutal and smart at the time.  They had a big advantage in PPC with Overture too.  I don't think it is as simple as them getting out-played by Google, this isn't G's genius at work.

[Brad]

No they didn't get outplayed by Google, they squandered their opportunities or just missed them.  It was mismanagement that killed Y!