10/29/2007
Yoohoo Yahoo. Where are you?
Back some time ago, Jerry Yang at Yahoo said he’d be off spending 100 days seeking answers internally. It was a bad idea at the time, and several of us chided Yang in blogs for taking a vague and ambiguous approach that pretty much showed that Yahoo was lost, adrift, and hunkering down to their own internal dialogue.
The other day Stuart Henshall posted this -
Yahoo 100 Days and… We’re at 98!
98 days and counting. Just two to go. I doubted Yahoo’s hundred day plan on day two. Over the weekend I linked to two posts that further compounded my doubts. If we get a plan I still suspect it will be very 1.0 and not 2.0 focused. Why? It’s in the language.
Well, we’re beyond 100 days now and Yahoo is simply becoming a bigger non-event every day. Hey Jerry, what the heck is going on inside there. Judging from the stories about, Stuart and I aren’t the only ones who’ve noticed Yahoo’s in trouble.
100 days in Internet time is an eternity, but it’s workable if something comes out of it. So far, nothing’s coming from Yahoo but silence.
Some of us are watching to see how Yahoo is going to re-emerge, but the truth is that if they don’t pull out of that funk they’re in pretty quick, there won’t be a whole lot left. The competition is moving forward while Yahoo appears to have its head up its in the sand.
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee.
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Also evident: Minor bugs that never get fixed, or that take days to fix. A bad indicator.