“As Yahoo Inc. prepares to report first-quarter earnings next week, CEO Marissa Mayer is riding a wave of investor enthusiasm following signs of business improvement, a string of small acquisitions and reports of partnership talks with Apple Inc.,” Benjamin Pimentel reports for MarketWatch.
“In fact, that investor enthusiasm has propelled Yahoo’s YHOO +1.76% shares to a level not seen since a blown merger battle with Microsoft Corp. sparked a massive selloff that has taken the stock nearly five years to recover from,” Pimentel reports. “Yahoo shares were trading up 1.8% at $24.25 by early Wednesday afternoon. That was after The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg both reported that Mayer was in talks with Eddie Cue of Apple Inc. over a possible expanded role for Yahoo’s services and apps on Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices.”
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Marissa is one smart lady. I have no doubt that she’ll make Google wish they hadn’t ignored her.
Google search? What’s that? I don’t use search very often but when I do I use Yahoo. Never use Google search. Maybe there’s something better out there then Yahoo? But I don’t want any part of Google search.
I read this morning that Yahoo search results come from Microsoft’s Bing. It is doubtful that doing business with Microsoft is any better than doing business with Google.
Yahoo! Search and Bing now share the same search engine/data, with only minor differences.
As for “never having used Google search”, I find hat _very_ hard to believe. If that is indeed the case, I envy you. I’ve been in a job enviroment where the head honcho thinks Google is the only way to go, despite my attempts to educate otherwise. I’m glad I’m breaking free of that cancerous thinking.
Of course you don’t use search, you know everything better than anyone.
I don’t know…my default search engine is still Google on my iPhone, iPad & Mac…due to I think force of habit more than anything else. I have been using Google search now since the dawn of time and I can’t think of anything else.
But I think Google is showing increasing bias by serving up Android related search results if you type in a search term for an app, unless you append the word ‘iOS’ behind it. I mean I’m using my iPhone to search for an app and Google thinks I’m looking for an Android app. Either their search algorithms are screwy or they’ve built in bias in the results.
I think Yahoo still serves junk results, but it’s getting better. If Google keeps serving me biased Android junk, I’ll think seriously about switching to Yahoo.
you have a choice – right – you know you can pick ‘bing’, ‘yahoo’, ‘google’ or ‘duck-go-duck’ something…
i want nothing to do with google and purposely chose yahoo.
Yeah, but Google is kind of ingrained in my mind. You get used to how they display their search results and you pretty much know that they’ll serve you what you want most of the time. I’ve been using Google search since forever and I’ve kind of bonded with them.
I’ve got to get my brain used to not receiving the Google crack.
So the Fat Boy has ‘bonded with Google’ …
Then why insult us with your less-than-basic knowledge of Apple (just using the fairer platform for 2 years or so?).
Man, you’re revolting, fat and slimy. We know who you are.
Google results in more ads and tracking your habits,
what is junk for you?
The couple of times I’ve used Yahoo search it didn’t give me what I want or was looking for. Admittedly that was before Marissa. That tainted my view of Yahoo.
Google’s search results relevance is/was higher than Yahoo’s. Now, I’m not so sure any more. Google’s results seem to be skewed towards paid advertisers.
I need to lay down the Google crack pipe.
So, just keep feeding Eric T Mole then.
DDG is great, have been using it exclusively for at least 18 months.
Oops. Intended this for your previous comment.
Arnold, DDG uses yahoo as its search engine. It does its own filtering which improves the results displayed. Not a criticism of DDG, just saying.
Man I tried Duck Duck Go. Jesus, talk about sparse results. I mean…if you don’t mind huge missing chunks of relevant results, then by all means use DDG.
I’m with you on this one. Yahoo search just hasn’t been as good as Google. Neither is Bing. Duckduckgo is okay, but still not as good as google. Plus you can’t select duckduckgo as the default in iOS either.
It would be awesome to see apple make some search improvements/changes in next version of iOS.
DDG has an iOS app, a bit awkward but it’s there and works quite well
Man, you need to GROW UP.
Not just another pretty face apparently. Go Marissa!
You might say that she’s definitely “on the ball”
Two things:
1. Don’t ever change your stock, go-to photo of Marissa Mayer.
2. More Yahoo stories, please!
It makes a lot of sense for Apple and Yahoo to collaborate together more going forward. Apple could sever some more ties with Google down the road and put them in the hurt box if all iOS devices were flipped over to used Yahoo search. I’ll bet most folks wouldn’t know even notice or care-as long as it worked at least as good as google. Yahoo has been struggling for so long I’m sure Marissa is looking for a good strategic partner like apple to help make Yahoo relevant again.
Ironically, I just made Yahoo my default search engine on my Mac. This is because of the Google Doodle on Easter Sunday that chose to recognize the birthday of Victor Chavez.
Why would you possibly care what google choose to use for a doodle on Easter? I honestly don’t see what the commotion is about. Then again I’m not religious so Easter is just another day of the week as far as I’m concerned.
Ahhh…now I see. (Shakes head)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/01/raul-reyes-on-cesar-chavez-and-google/2042701/
Soooo, is the goal to show the picture of bouncy Marissa on her ball at least 2/day? Don’t really have a problem with it… but, once people learn to expect it, talk about click-bait!!
😉
My default search is Yahoo. Second search is BigBoobies, third is LongLegs. That’s about it. 😉
Where can I get your second and third choices? Sounds titillating!
The smartest thing Yahoo could do is to change their name to something that sounds intelligent.
Apple.
Doesn’t “sound” smart.
Until you recall its importance in the story of human intelligence (recounted in Genesis), and in the story of celestial mechanics (Isaac Newton’s apple/moon analogy)
And don’t forget Apple cider from Johnny Appleseed’s trees that gave the settlers of “the Wild West” something safe to drink.
Actually, Genesis never mentions an apple.
You and Isaac living at the same time and working together would have owned the world in short order.
Oh, I’m certain we would have made a mint. 🙂
And get rid of that awful yodeling sound bite.
and replace it with the sound of Melissa’s laughter – hee haw!!! 😉
I had used Yahoo as my home page for years and avoided using Google for anything, not beliving their ‘do no evil’ claim. However a couple of months ago Yahoo changed their main page and I hate it and so have change to another news site. If they were to return the old format, I’d return in a minute.
Yahoo!’s contract with Microsoft to use Bing to power Yahoo’s search has years to go on it. That happened prior to Marissa. I believe that Marissa does want to get out of the contract at some point and possibly go back to Yahoo running its own search engine. I would personally like to see that.
On another note, I believe none of us would complain one bit if Marissa ended up in a very high ranking position at Apple sometime in the future.
I see a merger in the next four years. For now, Marissa’s getting the Yahoo house in order, forging alliances, picking up help along the way, leveraging her inside knowledge of Google operations to sidestep bear traps and red herrings. Next phase, ramping up Apple collaboration even more, and finally, through 3-way negotiations, setting up a satrapy with Microsoft, the only logical third state to help fend off the Ad Vandals, Visigoths, and Huns.
She’d do good to create a solid independent and significant new Yahoo, that commits meanigfully to special alliance with Apple, kinda like that which could have been with Google had the mole not abused the confidence.
Genius…
MDN, you just post these Yahoo! stories so you can repost the photo of Marissa on the ball.
Duh
Hail Mary!
Mobile push is goog but Yahoo need to play bigger bets like buying tumblr, yelp or four-square to become mobile content power house http://dearsrk.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/marissa-mayer-must-play-bigger-gamble-than-summly-to-revive-yahoo/
MDN, as much as I like that picture of her that you continuously post, don’t you think it is time for an updated one? Preferably in Lingerie. 🙂
Nope. Keep it.
Lingerie would be tacky for her.