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Posted on March 15, 2006
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Interview with Jerry

How happy are you with the competitive landscape of Yahoo!?

We’ve been clearly positioning ourselves as a broader internet
services company. If you look at what we do today in terms of being
more and more essential to users and advertisers, we’re making great
progress. Driving the consumers to making the internet more integral to
their lives. Audience growth and engagement, we’re doing great. That’s
not to say that our competitiors aren’t also doing well. You have the ability…

Some have characterized you vs. your competitiors: Google is a technology company, Y! is a media company. Do you agree with that?
I think it’s hard to run an internet company that’s of the scale we’re
talking about that doesn’t have a core competency in technology. We’ve
always emphasized that Y! can be the more human internet service. To
achieve that without a commitment around technology, that I think would
not be possible if we want to be a leader in the space…

This interview was conducted by Gordon Hodges at the Thomas Weisel Partners Internet and Telcom conference. You can find the complete highlights of the interview at .
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