(This is a follow-on to my post regarding Yahoo and AOL’s intentions to become media concerns by picking up displaced MSM reporters. While generally supporting the companies’ directions, if only as least-bad alternatives, I cautioned that the habits of retreaded…
The Future of Reporting (Thursday, September 3rd, 2009)
Yahoo Tries To Pick A Fight It Can Win (Monday, August 10th, 2009)
So now Carol Bartz, Yahoo CEO, says “we didn’t care about search anyway”. That may be retrospective sour grapes, but the truth is that Yahoo has acted as if search was not strategic, all the way back to 2000 when…