Yahoo “Never Was a Search Company,” Says CEO

August 7th, 2009 admin

Now that Yahoo has ceded its search business to Microsoft, it would be easy to call CEO Carol Bartz’s comment to The New York Times that “Yahoo never was a search company” a piece of revisionist history. But is it really


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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