Web 2.0 Summit: Jerry Yang says "It's been a pretty amazing year" » VentureBeat - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Nov 08
  

  Takuya Homma

  Yahoo!

  • a of selling to Microsoft was something we knew about,
  • “Look, the idea of selling to Microsoft was something we knew about,” he said. “I don’t think it is a bad idea at all….At the right price. We were willing to sell the company.
  • Yang said, “We were disappointed that [the government] didn’t understand how it was good for consumers.” He said he was disappointed Google pulled out too.
  • I really thought that the government does not understand our industry. They have a definition of the market that is too narrow. But they’re the government.”
  • He said that advertising on the web is still in its nascent stage. He says that one example is that in the future, there will be more niche channels in web sites that advertisers can target. A San Francisco newspaper can in the future sell more inventory on Yahoo that is San Francisco specific. Yang said that advertising are showing significant interest in these kinds of opportunities.

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