Yahoo Search Engineers, Google Wants To Hire You
Sep 16, 2009 at 9:14am ET by Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts of Google has blogged that Google is willing to hire Yahoo Search engineers. Matt said, "if you’re an excellent Yahoo engineer with solid experience in search, Google is hiring."
Clearly, since the Microsoft & Yahoo deal, engineers at Yahoo might be a bit concerned about their job stability. Ask.com ran a funny poaching campaign recently to pick up Yahoo engineers. Microsoft said many Yahoo engineers will move over to Microsoft if the deal is approved. And now Google is hiring Yahoo engineers.
So if you are a Yahoo engineer and you want to apply for a job at Google, us [...]
Filed in: Google: Employees, Yahoo: Employees
Yahoo Board Member Icahn Trims Stake, Bartz Wants Wants To Stop “Navel Gazing”
Sep 1, 2009 at 8:22am ET by Greg Sterling
Investor and Yahoo board member Carl Icahn has reportedly reduced his holdings in Yahoo by roughly 12 million shares, according to a recent regulatory filing with the US SEC. Icahn became a board member last year after a prolonged and very public episode that involved heavy criticism of then Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and an attempt to oust the existing Yahoo board, including Yang, for blocking Microsoft's earlier takeover attempt.
As a board member he obviously supported the new MicroHoo search deal, which has so far turned out to be a disappointment to most investors. It also appears to have c [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees, Yahoo: General
Doug Cutting Leaving Yahoo
Aug 10, 2009 at 7:31pm ET by Matt McGee
Doug Cutting, creator of the Hadoop technology that powered Yahoo's search index, is leaving the company at the end of August for a position at Cloudera.
While the immediate reaction is to assume this is related to the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, in which Microsoft would take over Yahoo's search engine, Cutting tells the New York Times that's not the case.
"This has been in the works for awhile and is unrelated," Mr. Cutting said. "I am definitely not leaving in any sort of protest, and the thing I like least about this move is that it might be perceived that way."
On his personal blog, Cu [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Employees
Can Yahoo Really Compete In Search By “Owning The Interface”?
Aug 3, 2009 at 11:53am ET by Greg Sterling
During the Yahoo-Microsoft conference call with CEOs Bartz and Ballmer and subsequent discussion with Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi and Yahoo's Hilary Schneider we heard repeatedly that although the two engines would share a single index and Microsoft would incorporate elements of Yahoo Search (e.g., Search Monkey) into Bing, Yahoo would continue to be different and vital in search.
Freed from the cost ($425 million reportedly) and ongoing demands of the back end, it would "innovate" around the interface and search user experience.
Many people in the industry were skeptical and shrugged it o [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: General, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: User Interface
Yahoo Improves EU Mapping, Does It Still See Maps As Strategic?
Jun 12, 2009 at 10:18am ET by Greg Sterling
These days it's hard to remember that at one time Yahoo was the pioneer in dynamic mapping. It introduced enhanced local search features and capabilities into the map before Google, Microsoft and MapQuest. At a certain point, however, Yahoo opted out of the map feature wars that erupted between Google and Microsoft (StreetView, 3D, aerial, UGC). Since that time there have been a range of incremental improvements for Yahoo Maps.
Accordingly the company said that it has given Yahoo Maps a "face lift" in the UK, and in France. There are a range of improvements discussed. While these ongoing im [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees, Yahoo: Maps & Local
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