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we were in deep discussions one of the bigger players PeopleSoft and they turned around and accepted an offer from Oracle so that you know as you know when you're selling a company you want multiple bidders right right grow the price right and when the bidders are themselves getting bought then your leverage declines right so we we did sell the company the product lives on our our engineering talent carried the product forward and it's a it's a good product today but we weren't able to hit you k
we totally differentiate between algo results and what's Yahoo content module right and we don't obviously we don't rearrange any search results
having a search engine as part of an asset and the company is huge and I think that's that's a thing and an asset really only two or three companies have
the local search business is really dominated by Google and Yahoo because we have to know in search engines right so we can catch people at the top of the funnel right understand when their intent is local and redirect them to local content
local da who com sure it's um it's kind of the one of the leading local destination sites in the web sure it's a very large one of Yahoo's largest properties they handle about a billion five searches every year Wow we have over 20 million uniques
Apple didn't make the first mp3 player right Rio made the first one so he being first means sometimes you get all the arrows when you go up the hill and you know somebody else can come in and they might have a way to sort of solve the problem in a way that you don't so I highly recommend going for it if you think you have a better system like Steve Jobs da di with the iPod
I mean if you think about the video space YouTube was not the first video site
having a search engine as part of an asset and the company is huge and I think that's that's a thing and an asset really only two or three companies have right so City search have to get ranked in Yahoo and google you yahoo and google get to put the result right up top correct
the local search business is really dominated by Google and Yahoo because we have to know in search engines right so we can catch people at the top of the funnel right understand when their intent is local and redirect them to local content which is really where our team comes in right
having a search engine as part of an asset and the company is huge and I think that's that's a thing and an asset really only two or three companies have right
the local search business is really dominated by Google and Yahoo because we have to know in search engines right so we can catch people at the top of the funnel
back in the day when AOL was charging like 25 million dollars to be the exclusive X sponsored exclusive be sponsor of like a channel right that's right that's right I mean we were we were mailing out this all across America we were an online subscription service we were paying for content the model was totally different right and it all transformed within the course of a couple years
users love it first of all because they want to complete tasks so when you can give them a shortcut to what they're actually looking for as long as it's relevant and we're very particular on our confidence levels around being able to understand the queries and yeah serve against them so we have a very high threshold there as long as you're relevant I think users love it
Yahoo get to put the result right up top
the local search business is really dominated by Google and Yahoo because we have the search engines right so we can catch people at the top of the funnel
our value proposition is really around task completion we want to get you in and out the data and information you need as soon as possible
it's kind of the one of the leading local destination sites in the web sure it's a very large one of Yahoo's largest properties they handle about a billion five searches every year Wow we have over 20 million uniques