Comments on: Yahoo committed seppuku today

By: Yahoo criticized by the father of PHP | Ennev's Tech Journal

Yahoo criticized by the father of PHP | Ennev's Tech Journal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:59:18 +0000

[...] wanted more up front money; tech elites called it an abdication, a “shame” and “seppuku.” Now Yahoo is losing a programming icon over the embarrassing [...]

By: Bob47

Bob47 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:38:55 +0000

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By: A case for innovation in college newsrooms | CoPress

A case for innovation in college newsrooms | CoPress — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:03:49 +0000

[...] quote Jason Calacanis, “Innovation is all you have. Once you stop innovating you lose your talent and you lose the [...]

By: Masked Financier

Masked Financier — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:46:17 +0000

I love poker analogies to investing (just like Fred Wilson!).
It looks like while Yahoo had the better hole cards (a big
head start and huge audience), the flop favoured Google
(the web got really big) and Google bet well (invested sweat
and money on better search technology). However, the turn
and the river are yet to come between these two, and let’s
not forget the other player at the table, who came along
with a gigantic stack and hasn’t played too well so far but
hasn’t mucked its cards yet…
– Microsoft. We should keep watching this game!

By: Back to Blog | Startups and Life

Back to Blog | Startups and Life — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:52:47 +0000

[...] couple of days back I saw a new mail from Jason on his mailing list and towards the end of the mail he wrote about the fact that he was writing [...]

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:16:10 +0000

Never mind, I’m blind. Long day (can you nix this and the previous comment)

By: Grégory Talon

Grégory Talon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:09:05 +0000

Hi Jason,

Your article is pretty interesting for a non-product audience and from an high-level strategic perspective.
But if your lesson makes sense in the context of your article, you really need to understand that people don’t embrace the Yahoo! brand to search, and this even more true outside of the US. That’s why, investing or not on search, Yahoo! search is not gaining any market share.
Search is not the Yahoo!’s value proposition since more than 6 years, if we can regret the past move to not have acquired Google, this is not the same story today. Isn’t fair to decide to focus on what your brand do for people while keeping 88% of your revenues and removing most of the costs?
You base your analysis on the assumption that bing integration will be as the google one.
Maybe you’re wrong here.

Again it’s a nice article, but I think it’s pretty early to what is coming out of this.
Cause what you ask at the end of the day is to make Yahoo! a search company first, which means killing what the brand stands for in the eyes of 51% of the global Internet population.

Wouldn’t it be the biggest marketing mistake ever?

By: Microsoft/Yahoo: And the winner is… Yahoo? « Smoove3 | The Rebirth of a Legend

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:38:02 +0000

[...] 30 percent of the search market. And while he quickly jumped out to write his blog post “Yahoo committed seppuku today“, he and others like him completely missed why it is Yahoo that wins in this [...]

By: Yahoo! and Bing: What Does It Mean For You?

Yahoo! and Bing: What Does It Mean For You? — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:12:08 +0000

[...] After all, there has been plenty of both (dust and wailing). One blogger went so far as to suggest “Yahoo committed seppuku today” (the equivalent of hara-kiri). Others took a more measured view, pointing out pros and cons, [...]

By: TWiT 206: Mold Happens | CastMedium

TWiT 206: Mold Happens | CastMedium — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:11:32 +0000

[...] Yahoo has relented and has given up on the search market. All searches from Yahoo will now be served by Microsoft’s Bing. This solidifies Bing as the #2 search engine in the world, with no real 2nd place player in the market. Jason equates this to Yahoo committing seppuku. [...]