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Quotes About Yahoo

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
~ Eric Schmidt
Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.
~ Nick D'Aloisio
It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.
~ Nick D'Aloisio
Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
~ Carol Bartz
Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.
~ Marvin Ammori
The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising.
~ Terry Semel
I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.
~ Terry Semel
Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.
~ Douglas Coupland
When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top.
~ John Battelle
There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure.
~ Brian Acton
Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.
~ David Filo
I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.
~ David Filo
Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users.
~ Ross Levinsohn
Yahoo! has clearly established itself as the go-to destination for big events and breaking news, and we are focused on providing the best digital canvas for the world's greatest storytellers to create, develop and showcase their visions.
~ Ross Levinsohn
Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.
~ Ross Levinsohn
Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.
~ Ross Levinsohn
I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.
~ Ross Levinsohn
Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.
~ Ross Levinsohn
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
~ Kara Swisher
I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.
~ Jerry Yang
Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
~ Jerry Yang
People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.
~ Jerry Yang
If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.
~ Harvey Weinstein