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Nice try, new Yahoo CEO. ;)

All kidding aside, they need to focus on some core products to start stabilizing their presence again. Give Flickr good leadership. Make Delicious a priority product. Figure out if the search product is worth maintaining.

Above all, they need someone scrappy and clever to lead, not just contain the flailing of their tentacles.

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Delicious can't be a priority project; they sold it off a few months ago to the YouTube guys.

Their search is outsourced now to Bing, as far as I know anyway, so they can't really build around outsourced search.

I am still reeling from this "strategy" - namely, WTF happened to all the infrastructure they previously had for search?

Where are the machines, the staff, the datacenters that were in place for this?

Yahoo Search has almost always been outsourced. Even in the early days their search index was run by a third party (OpenText, then AltaVista, then Inktomi, then Google, now Bing).

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