sweetrevenge2008

Yahoo Goes the Path of Old Search Skins

I guess the best way to try and understand how Jerry Yang was thinking during the Microsoft offers is to understand the oriental mind. Its far more important to orientals to lose money rather than to lose face. Maybe jerry felt that by accepting the final offer from Microsoft, he would be lossing face with not only his own employees but with the rest of the bsuiness world as well, and to lose face, is not acceptable. Its not like the deal with Microsoft would have made him an instant billionaire, he already had achieved that goal on his own, so it wasn't the money that swayed his decision making, but something else. Maybe he felt that why should he sell out his company to a arch rival who would use his company to their best advantages to over take their arch rival Google, when it was Jerry Yang and his company that made Yahoo what it is today. Why should he let his enemy have all the benefits he had worked so hard to accomplish all these years of being with Yahoo?
Saving face is a very big issue with orientals! Think about it!