Lanzone: Undoing Google's Search Dominance Is No Longer Realistic For Yahoo
Jim Lanzone · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business · Apr 4, 2024 · at 18:05
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Yahoo, explains Yahoo's modern product strategy and its realistic position in the search market relative to Google.
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“The move to Google in June of 2000, you know, was its own thing that time was spent trying to undo, but at this point is not a realistic job. Like we can still participate in search and make good money from search, but like Google is Google at this point.”
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