Ed Zitron

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.

Her replacement, Scott Thompson, who previously served as president of PayPal, would last a whole five months in the role before he was replaced by former Google executive Marissa Mayer, in part because it emerged he lied on his resume about having a computer science degree. Hey, Robocar, did you not notice? Anyway, whatever.

Her replacement, Scott Thompson, who previously served as president of PayPal, would last a whole five months in the role before he was replaced by former Google executive Marissa Mayer, in part because it emerged he lied on his resume about having a computer science degree. Hey, Robocar, did you not notice? Anyway, whatever.

Her replacement, Scott Thompson, who previously served as president of PayPal, would last a whole five months in the role before he was replaced by former Google executive Marissa Mayer, in part because it emerged he lied on his resume about having a computer science degree. Hey, Robocar, did you not notice? Anyway, whatever.

Bartz joined Yahoo in 2009, so about four years into Robocar's reign of terror, I guess. And she joined in the aftermath of its previous CEO, Jerry Yang, refusing to sell the company to Microsoft for $45 billion.

Bartz joined Yahoo in 2009, so about four years into Robocar's reign of terror, I guess. And she joined in the aftermath of its previous CEO, Jerry Yang, refusing to sell the company to Microsoft for $45 billion.

Bartz joined Yahoo in 2009, so about four years into Robocar's reign of terror, I guess. And she joined in the aftermath of its previous CEO, Jerry Yang, refusing to sell the company to Microsoft for $45 billion.

In her first year, she laid off hundreds of people and struck a deal that I've mentioned before to power Yahoo's search using Microsoft's Bing search engine tech, with Microsoft paying Yahoo 88% of the revenue it gained from searches, a deal that made Yahoo a couple hundred million dollars for handing over the keys and the tech to its most high-traffic platform.

In her first year, she laid off hundreds of people and struck a deal that I've mentioned before to power Yahoo's search using Microsoft's Bing search engine tech, with Microsoft paying Yahoo 88% of the revenue it gained from searches, a deal that made Yahoo a couple hundred million dollars for handing over the keys and the tech to its most high-traffic platform.

In her first year, she laid off hundreds of people and struck a deal that I've mentioned before to power Yahoo's search using Microsoft's Bing search engine tech, with Microsoft paying Yahoo 88% of the revenue it gained from searches, a deal that made Yahoo a couple hundred million dollars for handing over the keys and the tech to its most high-traffic platform.

As I previously stated, when Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's secret weapon, was doing his work, Yahoo's search was so valuable that it was replaced by Bing. Its sole value, in fact. I mean, maybe I'm being a little unfair, but there's a way of looking at this that you could say that Yahoo's entire value at the end of his career was driven by nostalgia in association with days before he worked there.

As I previously stated, when Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's secret weapon, was doing his work, Yahoo's search was so valuable that it was replaced by Bing. Its sole value, in fact. I mean, maybe I'm being a little unfair, but there's a way of looking at this that you could say that Yahoo's entire value at the end of his career was driven by nostalgia in association with days before he worked there.

As I previously stated, when Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's secret weapon, was doing his work, Yahoo's search was so valuable that it was replaced by Bing. Its sole value, in fact. I mean, maybe I'm being a little unfair, but there's a way of looking at this that you could say that Yahoo's entire value at the end of his career was driven by nostalgia in association with days before he worked there.

Anyway. Thanks to the state of modern search, it's actually very, very difficult to find much about Ragavan's history. It took me hours of digging through Google, and at one point being, embarrassingly, to find three or four articles that went into any depth about him.

Anyway. Thanks to the state of modern search, it's actually very, very difficult to find much about Ragavan's history. It took me hours of digging through Google, and at one point being, embarrassingly, to find three or four articles that went into any depth about him.

Anyway. Thanks to the state of modern search, it's actually very, very difficult to find much about Ragavan's history. It took me hours of digging through Google, and at one point being, embarrassingly, to find three or four articles that went into any depth about him.

But from what I've gleaned, his expertise lies primarily in failing upwards, ascending through the ranks of technology on the momentum from the explosions he's caused. In a Wired interview from 2021, glad handler Stephen Levy said Raghavan isn't the CEO of Google, he just runs the place, and described his addition to the company as a move from research to management.

But from what I've gleaned, his expertise lies primarily in failing upwards, ascending through the ranks of technology on the momentum from the explosions he's caused. In a Wired interview from 2021, glad handler Stephen Levy said Raghavan isn't the CEO of Google, he just runs the place, and described his addition to the company as a move from research to management.

But from what I've gleaned, his expertise lies primarily in failing upwards, ascending through the ranks of technology on the momentum from the explosions he's caused. In a Wired interview from 2021, glad handler Stephen Levy said Raghavan isn't the CEO of Google, he just runs the place, and described his addition to the company as a move from research to management.

While Levy calls him a world-class computer scientist who has authored definitive texts in the field, which is true, he also describes Raghavan as choosing a management track, which definitely tracks with everything I've found out about him.