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Jerry Yang - Slugworth to Google's Willy Wonka
Published 11/24/2008 at The Register
How did it come to this? Fail and You Yahoo! Ever since Wonka's Chocolate Factory in Mountain View started serving queries, it has been a living monument to the failure of Sunnyvale's Slugworth - and just about everything that has gone wrong can be blamed on Jerry Yang.…
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