[venomsnake]

Calling someone in their 30-s that you are not into intimate relationship with or hitting on them cute is indeed inappropriate.

Also her looks are irrelevant - they won't help her save the company and many of yahoo shareholders will gladly kiss Medusa if she able to increase the share price 3 fold.

I am much more worried that there is not much of her brilliance shown yet. The new yahoo homepage, while improvement doesn't seem to be able to get new demographics or fix the major problems that made me abandon yahoo years ago.

[jiggy2011]

It's probably good for PR to have an attractive woman in an important position, especially in a tech company.

The press like publishing pictures of attractive people.

I'd wager more people have heard of Mayer than sergey brin for example.