James Robert Kelley

I’ve been thinking about Yahoo! turning down an offer from Microsoft, and could not understand why they would refuse an offer that was probably overpriced. The only thing I could come up with was pride, they didn’t want to sell out to Microsoft.

Now I have another theory: stupidity. Google has been running the world of Search, largely due to their team of Ph. D.’s and unusually strong thinking. You never see anything dumb coming out of Google. Yahoo! on the other hand shows a lack of engineering understand in a graphic that is supposed to show the workings of their new strategy:

Do you see the problem with this graphic, located on the Yahoo! Developer Network Home? Spin an internal gear the the whole thing comes apart! How can you expect a company with such lousy engineers to know a good deal when they see one?