[HunterV]

To me, it just sounds like Mayer is trying to implement Google's structure to Yahoo! without everyone calling it that.

You'll see it mentioned in articles concerning the similarities between her new structure and Google. But they're quickly dismissed usually by flaky differences such as in this one where she's not implementing Google's independent work program, which I'm pretty sure isn't a thing at Google anymore.

She's smart, she doesn't want to reinvent the wheel, she knows what Google is doing works. She just doesn't want to be known as the one who "Google-ized" Yahoo!.