Comments on: Semel exit masks yet another bad quarter at Yahoo

By: Crab

Crab — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:49:28 +0000

Robert,

So your answer is to tap into the "spam free" messages that are sent and turn them into spam? Fvckin great idea!

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:11:00 +0000

Nice catch Om. Just as you said, I really, really wish they would get its act together. It is frustrating to watch this slow-motion train wreck. I have little confidence in this latest attempt at reorg (with all due respect to JerrY!)

Y! needs massive house-cleaning.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:48:05 +0000

It's definitely all about advertising.

I'm surprised these companies aren't trying to make a stronger push into the e-mail advertising market. I just seen some statistics stating that there are over 20 billion spam-free e-mail messages sent per day. That works out to something like 7.3 trillion messages per year.

If you figure that Yahoo! has an entire index size of just 19.2 billion web pages, you can quickly see how communication has potential to bring in large amounts of revenue. With that said, I think targeting is still way off, so it's hard to monetize.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:47:12 +0000

Earlier today I saw Yahoo Autos delivering ads through Google Adsense – http://www.kaujalgi.net/?p=55. Maybe this is connected to Terry’s leaving.

Also, I wondering if I should be confident of the new Search Marketing from Yahoo!