Yahoo Search Execs Blast CFO Comments

One may feel sorry for Yahoo CFO Susan Decker, whose comments in an interview regarding Yahoo's place in the search world, ie second to Google, have generated a heated response in the Yahoo Search Blog. Maybe Decker's comments in her chat with Bloomberg were taken out of context, as some bloggers have suggested.

interview with her: "We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google," Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share. Bloomberg is a pretty solid and reliable news source. It's difficult to imagine a scenario where one of its reporters would put together that statement out of context. Decker has not denied making that statement, so it seems safe to take these comments at face value, despite one commenter's opinion on the Yahoo Search Blog that "Decker was quoted incorrectly." Yahoo's talented search team must have taken them as a slap in the face. Yahoo Search executives Qi Lu, VP Engineering, and Eckart Walther, VP Products, here. Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.