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   feh, Jun 19th, 2007 @ 10:42am

   
   

   "Semel's Ouster", which individual was that? How does one become a professional ouster?
   I'd like to smack whoever started using the word "ouster" in that fashion. It's just cropped up in the last few years.
   I know it is technically correct, but it just sounds wrong.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 19th, 2007 @ 11:40am

   
   

   History repeats (with new heroes and villains)

   While Yahoo clearly needs a deep re-think of its strategy, the problem isn't entirely Yahoo's. This phenomenon is typical in any market where there is an extremely dominant player. Google is just so strong that everyone else has to drastically adjust themselves to deal with it. The strength of the dominant player builds on itself (as more people use it, it gets better; it gets more of the ad revenue; it gets more of the cream of engineers; it can invest more in new ideas etc.) A similar thing happend with Microsoft and its competitors in the 90's.
   
   But this isn't all bad either - it makes people really stretch themselves to innovate instead of doing just "me-too" stuff. Yahoo will need to drastically innovate; otherwise it will die just like Netscape, Borland, Corel etc. in the earlier era.

    

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   Michael, Jun 19th, 2007 @ 3:09pm

   
   

   I would have been happier if Yang hadn't been so h

   As an analyst reminded the Wall Street Journal, Jerry Yang shares responsibility for what has happened to Yahoo. His statement says to me, "We're going to do more of the same, only better." Yahoo still seems to suffer from hubris, an essential character quality for Greek tragedies.
   
   -- Michael from the U.S. Desk at TheNewsRoom.com

    

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