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I think it's great I think it's great for both um I think that uh well I think I think it's great because Yahoo one of the things that Yahoo does very well is um because it's entire uh not entire almost its entire business runs off the conversion of people off of uh its homepage and uh you know they run as they often talk about um custom homepages obviously for every single user and they're constantly moving those things through um and they do have the ability to surface if they if they implemen
the fact that they're opening uh stores is amazing to me Google's yeah gonna be opening stores and I guess that's going to be like a pretty big deal because everybody's going to go there
I think music is probably the most impactful of all these none of them blew my mind... I think the UI ux around all of these things is so terminally bad... and easily repairable that it blows my mind
tons of people get traffic through linkedin right now somebody told me that two years ago i would have told them that that's that will never happen you know and now all of a sudden linkedin has this new home page when you this homepage experience that was sort of like twitter plus tech meme and that really has driven traffic to some sites huh
I'm not aware of google doing anything except for what was the failed wiki experiment they did that no no no google no google no i mean that was a pretty disastrous effort nobody else at google is doing anything like that right um not that i know of
my dream for google my dream for every search engine including yahoo and the bing relationship would be that it surfaces the best content
panda updates from google and different updates from google have been equivalent but not necessarily any bigger than than any other you know sort of evolutions of distribution
i wouldn't say it made it better i just say it's made it different
we could have a good exit and we could also have a great exit for our contributors um and and and whether in the yahoo scenario that's really why it made the most sense
every day we get we get higher quality contributors we get more sort of known commodities
i think you know even as recently as you know last week with a hurricane you know we we we had the best sort of first-hand coverage i think out there i think cnn i report does a great job um and and along with them you know i think we're really doing a great job of of owning that
one of the advantages to being at yahoo is that you know we kind of own big events and getting contributors involved in that whether it's you know the olympics uh or right now or 911 or even you know things that happen in the short term
there's pieces of content that have gotten you know millions of page views you know no doubt about it
you know we are hiring uh and and getting people is um is key ... to work at yahoo scale is very intriguing um how does how does a model work you know when you have things like um you know you know 13 or 14 number one front pages to work with uh when you can mix it with you know the highest end editorially you know curated content original content in the world and you can really be involved in that kind of mix
working at a company like yahoo obviously they've been a little beat up in the press um does that impact your ability to operate and to recruit people ... i think you know hiring talent is is the number one sort of objective of anybody who wants to start anything uh but if you're working in content to work at yahoo scale is very intriguing
we're starting to get much much more deeply involved in video
i think we're pretty aggressive about figuring out the best you know the best content model um i think that's that's evolving you know i think we used to be you know very dependent on on a few different licenses of associated press and other things and while we still maintain those and and push those we're looking at new things like like ycn
we're all about trying to collect the highest quality content we can we consider ourselves the premier digital media company um you know we have you know as sports and news and finance go if we're not number one in every single one of those categories we're number two
it's been it's been great experience you know as you know um you're either working at startups or you're working at a company that works at scale there's very few of those companies working at scale right now
we're at a point right now where you can look at a given day and 15 of the content that's on a site like yahoo sports is coming uh from its users through to the yahoo contributor network
yahoo made the most sense because it provided by far and still does today the biggest opportunity for for the user or the semi pro person or whoever to participate in in in in the world's biggest you know premier media company
yahoo's you know traditionally been in the business of not having a lot of um uh you know sort of you know voice known voice and that's something that we're working on now um and this is really one of the first starts of that which is that um you know a platform like ycn you know can add a whole new level of voice to sports news and finance and those kinds of things not only does it give users the opportunity to be participants and improve engagement but it also increases the depth and breadth d
there are times when we don't edit some content for example if i have a beat writer who is constantly writing and has been writing for us for five years and does a spectacular job and is writing up to the minute news on earthquake conditions in the chesapeake bay region and it's real-time content we want to get it out there and it's newsy that might auto publish
if it ends up on the network it you know at least gets looked at by one person
about 20 percent of our content now is uh makes its way on to the network that's that's the focus of our content is to be uh yeah contributor network is really supposed to be about powering you know the all of the number one and top sites that yahoo boasts
every single piece of content that we publish here except for very rare cases which have to do with some of our most experienced contributors in certain sorts of in particular formats are edited by human beings
we're not about.com so we don't have an authority piece on on um on how to navigate a certain fly fishing river in alaska we might have five or six of them
now we really pay people every way you could possibly get but we try to pay people any way that we possibly can... which now includes things like beats
we always efforted to front people at least some of that money over time... and we still do that today
we we welcome anybody to publish we don't pay everybody but um necessarily but um but we but we keep an open platform uh we we think we do better with you know um you know with over a half a million contributors than with uh when then with 64 who run 64
they basically um condemned the uh associated content office uh and uh moved us into a more traditional structured cubicle security setting our office space that associated content was uh was basically a a leaky roof kind of operation so the first thing that yahoo did uh was get us out of there