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Yahoo: creepy Facebook could be our biggest competitor

By Emil Protalinski

On October 8, 2010, 3:38 PM

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has admitted that Facebook could one day become Yahoo's number one competitor, according to USA Today. When asked what company was Yahoo's single biggest competitor, Bartz replied: "Facebook — not today, but they could be. If they keep going, they will have the vault of information on everybody in the world, and that’s valuable." When asked whether Facebook was valuable to the point of scary, she said: "Yes, creepy. I don't care to find an old boyfriend. One time, just to see if they got fat and bald, but then leave me alone. But I'm old."

The comments are from the USA Today CEO Forum in Atlanta, which happened over a week ago, but they were only published today on the newspaper's website. The Q&A was "edited for length and clarity," so unfortunately we don't know if there was any relevant context to the questions.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently asked a similar question, but he said that neither Facebook nor Apple were Google's biggest competition. Instead, he said it was Bing. Of course, Yahoo is now powered by Bing so of course Microsoft is more friend than foe. Still, it's interesting to see that Google completely denies Facebook being a competitor while Yahoo says that it will be one day.


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  1. October 8, 2010 11:36 PM
    Guest said:

    What is Yahoo?

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  2. October 9, 2010 4:18 AM
    Guest said:

    I'm pretty sure it was some sort of search engine when I was a kid.

    I imagine its one of those companies that doesn't actually do anything but still exists in theory.

    Like sill having an @aol.com email address.

    Reply
  3. October 9, 2010 5:25 AM
    LinkedKube
    LinkedKube, TechSpot Project Baby, said:

    I bet he peed his paints when making that statement.

    Reply
  4. October 10, 2010 7:42 PM
    Gars
    Gars said:

    lol

    i have to admire those posts above

    any1 with yahoo messenger here?

    Reply
  5. October 12, 2010 9:22 AM
    Guest said:

    I have to use yahoo, and I have this habit of leaving my cell phone on at night, got woken up at 4:00 am by a pest that I have refused multiple times. The only reasin I use yahoo messenger is because some idoit at the University of Oklahoma decided that whas going to be the chat of the future, and since she can not answer the phone during working hours, its the only way to get to her. That's what I call creepy!

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