Quotes about Yahoo

We have always had a long-term commitment to China and even more so to the development of its Internet industry, We're confident that Yahoo! is putting its resources behind the right management team, which operates according to similar values as we do, and shares the same vision for providing the most essential and relevant services to consumers and businesses.

Jerry Yang

The Yahoo! web site is normally among the fastest and most reliable on the Internet. Yahoo! consistently delivers its home page during business hours in an average of 1.5 seconds to T-1 connected locations around the U.S. with a reliability of 99.3 percent or better.

Gene Shklar

The biggest issue in China is the arbitrariness and the sudden changes. Services like Yahoo say they have to follow the rules in China , but the rules are always changing… It's like an intimidation tactic.

Danny O'brien

Yahoo takes security very seriously and employs measures to help protect our users. Upon learning of this issue, we immediately began working on a number of improvements, some of which are already in effect.

Mary Osako

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.

Jack Ma

There hasn't been a global solution yet to this problem. If hackers can shut down Yahoo!, they can shut down anything they want tomorrow.

Chris Rouland

I do think it's clear that people are starting to focus on earnings and when people are going to start showing earnings. Although Yahoo! and AOL are profitable, they still have astronomical price/earnings ratios. It's going to be a while before earnings catch up to valuations.

Dalton Chandler

The numbers being thrown around right now add up to a fraction of a cent per message. But when you add up all the different banks and companies that will be using this around the world, it would definitely make Yahoo and AOL a nice chunk of change.

Teney Takahashi

The chances are good for AOL to succeed here because its definition of success won't be the same as it is for Microsoft or even Yahoo. What AOL wants is wide use of business clients connected to its worldwide user base, and to make money off that.

Robert Mahowald

The rumor was the major catalyst today that caused [Yahoo] stock to move.

Jeff Fieler

We have more than 450 million people coming to us every month, and their lives are locked into the PC browser. With a Yahoo ID we connect the whole Internet to your device.

Marco Boerries

Disney will need to have access to the home, through the Web, by buying Yahoo! or investing further in online operations.

Tom Wolzien

This is a fairly significant step ahead for Yahoo.

Charles Golvin

Yahoo has always made it clear they care about their consumers. Any online service has to create a trust with the community.

Dawn Simon

This is definitely a step for Yahoo, and a step for the industry.

Jasper Malcolmson

If Yahoo isn't doing business in China, someone else will. It's putting American businesses at a disadvantage in the world marketplace.

Sonia Arrison

They have to do this to survive, compete and thrive, because MSN is in a pitched battle with Yahoo, Google and AOL ( NYSE: AOL - news ), which have created their own Web developer platforms.

Laura Didio

These (disputed) methods haven't been widespread. Even Yahoo goes on TV to tell people to get on the Web. To reach the mass market, you have to go through traditional means.

Susan Scott

Yahoo! is embarking on a major transformation. The company must now prove that online advertising is cost effective and integral to the marketing mix of traditional advertisers.

Holly Becker

The company is executing quite well ... but there's nothing that made me jump out of my seat and scream 'Yahoo!'.

Jordan Rohan

We have received a number of calls on whether a combination of Yahoo and Disney would make sense. We believe an investment would be much more likely. Given that AOL-Time Warner is likely to be a real entity within a few weeks, creating a very strong global integrated media and Internet competitor, we believe other media companies will be looking to create similarly powerful internet strategies.

Henry Blodget

On the auction side, it is a person-to-person payment, and right now they have to do that off line. The reason this is great for Yahoo! is that it really lowers the barrier for those transactions to take place.

Tim Brady

[But Yahoo executives stood by their earlier statement.] The number of documents in our index is accurate, ... We're proud of the accomplishments of our search engineers and scientists and look forward to continuing to satisfy our users by delivering the world's highest-quality search experience.

Jeff Weiner

Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

Jonathan Sacks

The long-term growth rate of Yahoo is not as good as some people thought.

Scott Reamer

Microsoft and Yahoo share a commitment to deliver IM interoperability while keeping consumer security, safety and privacy top of mind.

Brooke Richardson

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

John Park

Yahoo is operating on revenues of about $25 million. I have them on a hold rating right now because I'm scared at the valuation of their stock. But people want to invest in the Web and the branded franchise name, and Yahoo is the franchise leader.

David Readerman

From today onwards, in China Yahoo means a search engine and a search engine means Yahoo.

Jack Ma

I think Yahoo! is one of the best-managed companies in America.

Mike Volpi

Our understanding is that MSN and AOL have complied with the government's request, that Yahoo has provided some information in response but that information wasn't completely satisfactory (according to) the government.

Aden Fine

Our users spend more than twice the amount of time with us than any other financial site on the Web, so I think that clearly when you look at Yahoo Finance versus our competitors, there's breadth and there's depth.

Peggy White

Heck, Google Talk doesn't even feature a box to let you search for things, as rival products from AOL, MSN and Yahoo do.

Danny Sullivan

Two companies have benefited from the time-to-market advantage: Yahoo! and Amazon. Those are the single success stories. Every single day, it gets more and more competitive.

James Preissler

Investors were looking for direction and Yahoo was the catalyst to make them more optimistic.

Steve Tuen

Portal people like AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft are looking to be your front face on your device.

Jill House

Corporate America in general needs to establish Web sites in order to enhance their business prospects and the giant, successful dot.com companies like Yahoo! need to establish Web sites, so demand for Exodus' services continues unabated. It represents one of the fastest-growing companies on the Internet, in one of the most exciting markets and that's providing Internet infrastructure.

Frederick Moran

This is the first time that Yahoo is taking a booth at CES.

Nicole Leverich

I am really looking forward to being able to bring you more cool products from Yahoo!

Pablo Pissanetzky

It basically tells developers that if you are coding in PHP, you are welcome and we would love to have you write applications that integrate with Yahoo.

Jeffery Mcmanus

We made some decisions that were difficult, but which ultimately balance the investment in our growth areas with the adjustments to our near-term business plan to better position Yahoo! for long-term growth.

Tim Koogle

Yahoo! Go will make consumers' personally relevant information available to them anytime across their mobile phone, TV or personal computer. By making Yahoo! Go open, we are giving consumers the ability to easily access not only the Yahoo! services they find most vital, but also the universe of information available from across the web.

Marco Boerries

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money, ... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!.

Sumner Redstone

If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars.

George Bell

Today, especially on the heels of Yahoo!, it's just more indicative of the funk we find ourselves in.

Peter Coolidge

There is an emerging opportunity for commerce on the web and this agreement allows Yahoo! flexibility in aggressively pursuing this opportunity while retaining 100 percent of the financial benefit of Yahoo! shareholders.

Tim Koogle

Our first reaction is to be appalled at Yahoo helping to give information that puts dissidents in jail.

Lucie Morillon

Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based.

Mary Osako

The beauty or scary thing about Yahoo! (depending on your perspective), is that is has created this big ... base (and database) of users -- more and more of them keep going to the site a lot, they keep doing things with Yahoo!'s integrated sets of services and the users become dependent on the site and services and they don't pay a cent for them.

Mary Meeker

Longer-term, the pillars of the Internet, companies like eBay and Yahoo! will continue to outperform.

Youssef Squali

[As for Yahoo!, the company has] expressed some interest in it privately so it doesn't surprise me, ... Yahoo! isn't a financial institution, not a broker dealer, so it'd have to get involved in that to facilitate trade.

Bill Burnham

We look at our voice offerings as a platform. As we look down the road, we see a real opportunity to integrate our voice platform into other leading Yahoo services such as search and other communications programs. That is certainly our mission.

Terrell Karlsten

They should certainly be ashamed. They should be more than just ashamed. These people are sitting in prison for real time because Yahoo made the Chinese government's work much easier.

Xiao Qiang

We always hear Yahoo wants to be the MTV for the digital world, ... We're not about to give up this franchise. We are the MTV of the digital world.

Bill Roedy

That was the genesis of the full coverage of Yahoo News.

Neil Budde

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

Simon Davies

This release falls into the 'you asked, we answered' category. We've taken your feedback from Yahoo! Music Engine's initial release, prioritized it, attacked as many of the issues as time allowed, added a few new innovations, and packaged it all together into this latest release.

Adrian Rogers

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

Some standards that are specific to the Internet need to be put in place for cases like this. An organization that's based on the Internet and understands the properties of the Web... should be the one to set the standards for major Web-based organizations (such as Yahoo!) to follow.

Rob Lancaster

Yahoo will continue to strongly support law enforcement in their work, as well as continue to provide support for several non- profit organizations committed to online safety.

Mary Osako

We call on the Chinese government and Yahoo to provide a full explanation of the circumstances that led the company to provide account holder information.

Ann Cooper

It's a very nice innovation. It's more about retaining customers and giving them more reasons to stick with Yahoo.

Charles Golvin

Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police.

Reporters Without Borders

People are being a lot less aggressive with the money they're spending. It's less about billboards and Super Bowl ads ... or buying a banner on Yahoo ... and more about building grassroots support to get people on to your Web site.

Todd Dagres

It complements what Yahoo! is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

Derek Brown

I pushed this site through the search engines so it's very well connected. I want to be the Yahoo of poetry and I'm on my way.

Amy Gumley

We were able – much like a newspaper would – to respond immediately. We were one of the featured memorials on Yahoo.

Stuart Miller

For the first time companies like Yahoo will have a powerful tool to identify software applications that respect consumers and a means to monitor and enforce compliance over time.

Doug Leeds

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users.

Jon Sakoda

If you buy a car, a warranty is normally in place. I think users should expect the same online. If users use a service like Yahoo this service should offer a certain level of security, which Yahoo does offer — it's a question of if users are using it. The big players have dozens of advice lists, but the question is whether users are looking at the pages.

Bernhard Otupal

The more targeted advertising is the most valuable online real estate. If a user looking for a specific product can't access information about it on Yahoo!, he may go elsewhere.

Dalton Chandler

This acquisition effectively creates a Yahoo! for Linux and open source developers.

Larry Augustin

Yahoo! is committed to renewable power as it helps support sustainable, healthy communities for our customers and employees. Santa Clara Green Power gives us the opportunity to work together with the community to reach our common goals.

Meg Garlinghouse

It seems to me it's a prudent move by Yahoo. It's one thing to put your billboard up next to the other guys. But this, it seems to me, is different in nature and kind because you're employing search engine technology to guide customers from the Internet to you.

Lee Bromberg

The big question for Yahoo, actually for both parties, is whether we're going to take this to the Supreme Court.

E. Randol Schoenberg