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Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
valleywag.com - 11/19/2008
Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
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Among the many windmills Jerry Yang tilted at in his brief career as Yahoo's CEO was his devotion to Web search. It veered on an obsession for him. It played into his decision to resist Microsoft's offers to shower him with cash, first for his whole company, then for just its search business. ...
glue.yahoo.com - 11/20/2008
Yahoo! Glue - all you need, all in one place.
— glue.yahoo.com — New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Services Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services News... Sports Finance Entertainment Make Y! My Home Page Yahoo! Glue Yahoo! Glue Yahoo! Search Search WEB SEARCH Glue topic pages: all you need, all in one place. ... (more) Yahoo! Glue - all you need, all in one place.

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The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging
thestandard.com - 11/18/2008
The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging
— thestandard.com — First it was Fake Steve Jobs, now it's Real Dan Lyons. A frustrated Dan Lyons told me... this afternoon that he is hanging up his personal blog at RealDanLyons.com after his Newsweek bosses made him yank a blog post where Lyons (rightfully) ... (more) The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging

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Yahoo! Search Blog: Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
ysearchblog.com - 11/20/2008
Yahoo! Search Blog: Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
— ysearchblog.com — You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™... Pages . Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue™ beta . This newest iteration is a ... (more) Yahoo! Search Blog: Gluing Together the Best Content on ...

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Silicon Alley Insider:  Microsoft Poaches Yahoo's Top Search Engineer?

BoomTown:  Yahoo Search Suffers Another Blow, As Key Engineer Departs For Microsoft

Gawker: valleywag:  "We are done with Yahoo" [Steve Ballmer]

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Microsoft Poaches Yahoo's Top Search Engineer?
Silicon Alley Insider — An employee tipster tells Valleywag that Yahoo's VP of Search Technology Sean Suchter -- "I run Yahoo's web search engine," Suchter says in his LinkedIn profile -- is leaving the company and might join Microsoft. We left a message with Sean and are waiting to hear back. Please let us know more details if you have them. Valleywag's tipster says Schuster's departure means "the end of Yahoo search." We think that's a bit overdramatic. Yahoo (YHOO) search is more popular than Microsoft (MSFT) search because Yahoo.com is a very popular home page -- ...

Yahoo Search Suffers Another Blow, As Key Engineer Departs For Microsoft
BoomTown — ... News of Suchter’s departure, including the internal Yahoo memo announcing it, appeared in Valleywag this morning, which speculated that Suchter was headed to Microsoft. ...

"We are done with Yahoo" [Steve Ballmer]
Gawker: valleywag — ... ... We did our best. We've moved on." In business, this often means: We'll be back. For now, though, Ballmer said he'd rather cut a deal to serve Live Search results to Yahoo users — as a vendor, not an owner. Why can he speak with such confidence? Because he's already snapped up Yahoo's key search engineers. ...

Microsoft: "We are done with Yahoo" [Steve Ballmer]
Gawker: valleywag — ... ... We did our best. We've moved on." In business, this often means: We'll be back. For now, though, Ballmer said he'd rather cut a deal to serve Live Search results to Yahoo users — as a vendor, not an owner. Why can he speak with such confidence? Because he's already snapped up Yahoo's key search engineers. ...

Should Microsoft buy Yahoo Search, or just hire it?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... There's been some discussion about whether Microsoft still wants to buy Yahoo's search business, but it may not have to. Maybe it can just hire it away. Microsoft has already picked up Qu Li, Yahoo's top search scientist, and a memo leaked to Valleywag says it has hired Sean Suchter as well. Valleywag's tipster says: Today is the end for Yahoo Search. Sean Suchter just left for Microsoft. Everyone in the office is shocked. I've been on the Yahoo Search team for a while and he is the one key executive that it all depends on. If Microsoft has convinced ...

For Real: Whither Yahoo?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Not helping things for Yahoo is the departure of Yahoo’s VP of Web Search Technology—leaving for Yahoo. As Valleywag puts it, the loss of Sean Suchter, along with that of Qi Lu who left Yahoo for Microsoft in September, does more than just reduce Yahoo’s staff: ...

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