I think Yahoo's problem is the fact that its search side of things has collapsed. Primarily it was this that made the company so big. Now that search has effectively collapsed they don't appear to have a core product.
This means the question "What does Yahoo! do?" can't really be answered.
If you ask that question of Google. You answer. Google is a search engine which also does...
If you ask that question of Amazon. Amazon is an online store which also does...
With Yahoo? Yahoo.. owns a bunch on interesting products? It has no core and without a big central product to build around it has been hard for successive CEO's to actually drive the company forward.
I think Yahoo's problem is the fact that its search side of things has collapsed. Primarily it was this that made the company so big. Now that search has effectively collapsed they don't appear to have a core product.
This means the question "What does Yahoo! do?" can't really be answered.
If you ask that question of Google. You answer. Google is a search engine which also does...
If you ask that question of Amazon. Amazon is an online store which also does...
With Yahoo? Yahoo.. owns a bunch on interesting products? It has no core and without a big central product to build around it has been hard for successive CEO's to actually drive the company forward.
I have no idea what Mayer can do to resolve this.