Ed Zitron

Though according to ZDNet, he spent 14 years doing search and data mining research at IBM. Hmm.

Though according to ZDNet, he spent 14 years doing search and data mining research at IBM. Hmm.

Though according to ZDNet, he spent 14 years doing search and data mining research at IBM. Hmm.

In April 2011, The Guardian ran an interview with Raghavan that called him Yahoo's secret weapon, describing his plan to make rigorous scientific research and practice to inform Yahoo's business from email to advertising and how, under then-CEO Carol Bartz, the focus had shifted to the direct development of new products.

In April 2011, The Guardian ran an interview with Raghavan that called him Yahoo's secret weapon, describing his plan to make rigorous scientific research and practice to inform Yahoo's business from email to advertising and how, under then-CEO Carol Bartz, the focus had shifted to the direct development of new products.

In April 2011, The Guardian ran an interview with Raghavan that called him Yahoo's secret weapon, describing his plan to make rigorous scientific research and practice to inform Yahoo's business from email to advertising and how, under then-CEO Carol Bartz, the focus had shifted to the direct development of new products.

It speaks of Raghavan's scientific approach and his steady, process-based logic to innovation that is very different to the common perception that ideas and development are more about luck and spontaneity. A sentence that I'm only reading to you because I really need you to hear how stupid it sounds and how specious some of the tech press used to be.

It speaks of Raghavan's scientific approach and his steady, process-based logic to innovation that is very different to the common perception that ideas and development are more about luck and spontaneity. A sentence that I'm only reading to you because I really need you to hear how stupid it sounds and how specious some of the tech press used to be.

It speaks of Raghavan's scientific approach and his steady, process-based logic to innovation that is very different to the common perception that ideas and development are more about luck and spontaneity. A sentence that I'm only reading to you because I really need you to hear how stupid it sounds and how specious some of the tech press used to be.

Frankly, this entire article is ridiculous, so utterly vacuous that I'm actually astonished. I don't want to name the reporter. I feel bad. What about Raghavan's career made this feel right? How has nobody connected these dots before? I have a day job. I run a PR firm. I am a blogger with a podcast. And I'm the one who said, yeah, okay, Dracula is now the CEO of the blood bank. Nobody saw this.

Frankly, this entire article is ridiculous, so utterly vacuous that I'm actually astonished. I don't want to name the reporter. I feel bad. What about Raghavan's career made this feel right? How has nobody connected these dots before? I have a day job. I run a PR firm. I am a blogger with a podcast. And I'm the one who said, yeah, okay, Dracula is now the CEO of the blood bank. Nobody saw this.

Frankly, this entire article is ridiculous, so utterly vacuous that I'm actually astonished. I don't want to name the reporter. I feel bad. What about Raghavan's career made this feel right? How has nobody connected these dots before? I have a day job. I run a PR firm. I am a blogger with a podcast. And I'm the one who said, yeah, okay, Dracula is now the CEO of the blood bank. Nobody saw this.

Nobody saw this at the time. I just feel a bit crazy. I feel a bit crazy. But to be clear, this was something written several years after Yahoo had licensed its search technology to Microsoft.

Nobody saw this at the time. I just feel a bit crazy. I feel a bit crazy. But to be clear, this was something written several years after Yahoo had licensed its search technology to Microsoft.

Nobody saw this at the time. I just feel a bit crazy. I feel a bit crazy. But to be clear, this was something written several years after Yahoo had licensed its search technology to Microsoft.

In a financial deal that the next CEO, Marissa Mayer, who replaced Bartz, was still angry about for years, Raghavan's reign as what ZDNet referred to as the search master was one so successful that it ended up being replaced by a search engine that not a single person in the world enjoys saying out loud.

In a financial deal that the next CEO, Marissa Mayer, who replaced Bartz, was still angry about for years, Raghavan's reign as what ZDNet referred to as the search master was one so successful that it ended up being replaced by a search engine that not a single person in the world enjoys saying out loud.

In a financial deal that the next CEO, Marissa Mayer, who replaced Bartz, was still angry about for years, Raghavan's reign as what ZDNet referred to as the search master was one so successful that it ended up being replaced by a search engine that not a single person in the world enjoys saying out loud.

The Guardian article ran exactly one year before dramatic layoffs at Yahoo that involved firing entire divisions' worth of people, and four months before Carol Bartz would be fired by telephone by then-chairman Roy Bostock.

The Guardian article ran exactly one year before dramatic layoffs at Yahoo that involved firing entire divisions' worth of people, and four months before Carol Bartz would be fired by telephone by then-chairman Roy Bostock.