Yahoo! CEO: Google is 90% Search. That's a Fact.

Poor yahoo employees...

I think google is growing fine... Yahoo is jealous

Yahoo is to Google as McDonald's Hamburgers are to Filet Minion.

"To be 20 percent grower, which is what they have to be to be interesting, they have to grow a Yahoo! a year. I don't know why you thought that was so derogatory."

what??

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

In the other news: Carol Bartz is full of hot air.

I'm also good at saying things that don't make sense - can I be a CEO of a major company, too?

She's saying that for Google to be an interesting company from an investor's perspective, it would have to grow 20% a year. 20% growth would be roughly equal to the size of Yahoo!.

So, in a sense, it could be taken as a compliment. Meaning, Google is so huge that to grow at an exciting rate is difficult because they're so big to begin with. But, what makes it a bit derogatory is her implication that Google will struggle to do this. So, in a sense, she's probably implying the stock price of Google is high as it assumes a level of growth that's unsustainable.

In reality, it could be taken either way.

I love you Jane but you meant 'every year' not 'every yeah' =D Not being anal or anything =P

Why is she giving tips to another company? o_O

Exactly, especially when that other company is a booming success and the company she runs, which is a competitor to the other company, is sinking fast.

Google will grow with time; she obviously doesn't pay attention. Google is planning on offering Internet, as well as Cable. You think that won't attract a HUGE amount of customers? Google has a lot of experimental features in the testing phase, and it's just a matter of time.

Google will some day take over the world

Why the hell would google need to grow 20% a year to excite investors!?

They are incredibly profitable, a household name, and are expanding into other areas, investors dont ask for more than that.

Yahoo! CEO telling Google how to be successful? Lawl. Props to her for becoming CEO of Yahoo!... but she's an idiot.

I don't know what her problem is?

yes! i promote you. Oh WAIT! that was a normal informative sentence. your fired

I think she only knows how to navigate to the google homepage, doesnt search all the other various parts of googles property and range of use.

Who needs Yahoo's cluttered homepage.

M'kay... Yahoo has chat, Google has chat. Yahoo has mail, google has mail. Yahoo has clunky bloated search interface, google is clean and you have to exert real effort to clutter up its interface. Now for reversal. Google has an operating system for cell phones that is competing well with iPhone, Yahoo has a nimrod CEO that talks out here ass. I could say the sky is red. No, seriously... The sky is red. There. I did it. Now, of course, you'll look out your window and realize it was just words.

can you imagine if youtube never came?

i like google ALOT better than yahoo, from search engine to emails, etc. i cant remember the last time i typed in yahoo on my browser

The grammar of this article makes me scratch my head and wonder how people can run a company and speak so horribly. Both on Toms part and this retarded CEO's part (based on what Tom's writes of course). You can't grow a Yahoo! every yeah to be interesting. Editor checking of articles has gone downhill in the past few years here at Toms.

Google is branching out into Apps, unfortunately they are almost all web apps and free, nobody is using the paid versions. They need to gain a solid foot hold in the market via subscription or pay-only models. But in order to do that they need to establish themselves hence the free model currently in existence. It's a double edged sword and I think Yahoo! is being nice, but preaching to the choir. Google Inc. already knows this thats why they are releasing so many random beta products to see which one is a hook and sinker.

Valuations on stock vary, and in some cases, the valuations imply strong growth expectations. Put another way, let's say I have a $100,000,000 company, but it's growing at 50% a year. The valuation of the company will certainly be different than if it were stagnant, or growing slowly. If the company does not meet these heavy expectations, the stock will tank, and investors will not be happy.

So, it's not always so simple. I'm not talking about Google at this point, since it's not a stock I'm interested in and I haven't looked at it's valuation, I'm just pointing out that it's not always as simple as being profitable, or successful, because you can always be more of each, and expectations of future performance do play an important part in stock prices.

Damn, Yahoo is jealous or what.

She is just pissed over the fact when somebody says they are going to look it up on the 'net, they say "I'll google it" not "I'll Yahoo! it."

I think Google is way better than Yahoo will ever be. Yahoo is sub-par at everything, while Google is amazing at a few very important things like Search and Maps.

Well-put, my friend.

Ignore that hyphen... no idea how it got in there.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view, facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around, facts are living turned inside-out
Facts are getting the best of them, facts are nothing in the face of things

Sorry, whenever I hear someone say something is a fact outside of science, I just think of that song.

You know it's funny, I think something contrary to what she obviously feels, that Yahoo should be more specialized, it seems all over the place and they do none of it well. At least google does search well...Chrome's pretty good too. In all seriousness, her comments sound like bullet points she wants to put in a job application to google. Things change, and buinesses, like any human enterprise take adjustment as time passes, but really the rigid and weird treatment of business by businesspeople makes me want to vomit. They are ultimately human enterprises, run by people, not only are they capable of mistakes, like being too narrow or spreading themselves too thin, but they're also capable of looking at this crap soley through the lens of a business framework, and not seeing that they should probably change as they need to, not based on some sense of growth rather than what they do. Meh, ramble ramble.

Looks like Yahoo just pick some random idiot off the street to be their CEO......Oh if only I could of BEEN that idiot

You're point is? I only use Yahoo! because that's what my old email is (though I now use gmail for anything important, Yahoo! has become my junk email).

I'm good at thinking things that don't make sense, can I be a politician?

Is she living in a cave or something?