My latest on the Beast, regarding the rumors about Google and everyone else wanting to buy Yahoo. Money quote:
Yahoo has turned into the Paris Hilton of tech companies—a ditzy, dopey outfit that remains enormously popular even though nobody, including Yahoo itself, seems to know exactly what Yahoo does for a living. And like the heiress, for reasons that most sane people can’t understand Yahoo continues to attract a string of potential suitors and to find itself the subject of constant rumors even though it long ago ceased to be interesting.
What do they do besides my fantasy football?
Hey!
I’ve got an idea! I could buy Yahoo! for $1 and assume all of its liabilities!
Then, I could hire some hipster flash-in-the-pan “journalist” to blog for me.
It worked for Newsweek, right?
Yeah, that’s the ticket!!!!!
If it weren’t for my iPhone still checking it, Yahoo would have closed my email account for inactivity years ago. And I never would have noticed. Their search engine is about as useful as Bing, and I know they have a really cluttered web page, but what do they do besides email and search? Pipes?
Lyons, I love ya but #@*@#(*@!!@!((*#@+!:”.
xoxo
C.
Valued at $21 billion? So is Alice Walton, and I’d sooner hit that than Yahoo! .
Mmmma…I’d had my eye on Christy, but this Alice…she’s a partier!!
Thanks for the tip!
so woz, yahoo —> would you “hit that”?
nice analogy about yahoo, d. but does that mean yahoo will be appearing on the late show with craig ferguson?