[swalsh]

Let me backseat CEO this for a second. To me, the problem with Yahoo is they're no longer relevant, they no longer have a thing people want. In the past they made their money by being the "default" they WERE the front page of the internet. You open up a browser, there's a search bar, the weather, and a bunch of fluffy reprinted news articles.

But this isn't 1996. People don't need ANY of this. If I want the weather, I have a gadget on my phone, which by the way is the first thing I look at in the morning. If I want to search I type the query into the URL bar (I use chrome) If I want news I go to reddit or hacker news. Nothing is drawing me into yahoo. Reprinted badly written blog articles do not attract me. My mom would probably read them, but doesn't know how to search for them.

Basically, having an army of the top engineers in the world isn't worth anything if they're not working on something people want to use. Yahoo needs to rethink who they are if they want to survive, they lost news, they lost search, and they lost "hosting gadgets".

[seiji]

having an army of the top engineers in the world isn't worth anything if they're not working on something people want to use.

In the words of devops borat: "In startup we have great of capability for churn out solution. Please send problem, we are pay good money." https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/315549020326088704

[pavs]

People like you are a minority. Most internet users are not tech savvy enough to go to Reddit and HN for news.

You are not the type of web users Yahoo is looking for (at least for now), which is a good thing for yahoo because people like you or me are in the minority. Probably less than 1-2% of the internet users.

[wwkeyboard]

> an army of the top engineers in the world isn't worth anything if they're not working on something people want to use

Lockheed Martin's F-22 team was worth billions, and nobody wanted that plane. But yes, war profiteering aside, your point stands.

[protomyth]

People wanted the original idea for that plane.

The really sad part is that the F-35 is such a problem, they might restart production on the F-22 to supplement the fleet of uprated older planes to make up for the F-35.

[erehweb]

People don't need morning news shows either, but they are still very popular. Conveniently packaging stuff for the mass market is a reasonable use case.