Yahoo tells techcrunch to f*** off :)

Carol Bartz CEO, Yahoo! asks Techcrunch’s Arrington to F*** Off! Last month, Yahoo! has shown that it has a strong backbone of its own. After facing so much flak from shareholders, tech bloggers and the business community, Jerry Yang was replaced by Carol Bartz in January of 2009. Ever since Carol Bartz has been manning the helm at Yahoo! and doing a good job of it. In an interview with tech blogger Michael Arrington at Techcrunch Disrupt, when Carol Bartz was provoked enough about Yahoo!'s business model of conglomeration, Carol Bartz responded with much criticism to Arrington and his well known blog Techcrunch. She said to Arrington – “you are involved in a very tiny company”. If you want to see the interview video footage for yourself, check the embedded Youtube video below - <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="385" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/zq4A1uCQ1w0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/zq4A1uCQ1w0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> I like the way in which Carol has handled this situation. Not only has she sent out a strong message to the blogosphere that Yahoo! is not to be trifled with, but also she has won the loyalty of the “fine people at Yahoo!”. Needless to say Techcrunch came out with the transcript of the interview and a very detailed write-up, you can read all of it here. Deservingly, Carol won the support of the blogger community, including Guy Kawasaki. Personally speaking I haven’t been following Yahoo! for quite some time. Not because of an inferior product (you should check out their Maps and Yahoo Pipes), but rather because most of my work is organized around Google 😀 After this post, my respect for Yahoo!’s CEO has definitely gone up.