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It's Official: Yahoo Search Exec Suchter to Microsoft

in News on November 20, 2008 at 12:45 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown reported, based on sources, that Yahoo search exec Sean Suchter was headed to Microsoft. Now it’s official. Here’s a Microsoft statement on the hiring of Suchter, an important tech leader at Yahoo, from Satya Nadella, SVP for Search, Portal and Advertising.

Yahoo Search Suffers Another Blow, as Key Engineer Departs for Microsoft

in News on November 19, 2008 at 11:29 am PT

Yahoo–which has stuck to its guns by staying in the search business, even though many think it is a losing game and should be sold off to Microsoft–has lost a key engineer in that arena to–uh-oh–Microsoft. Sean Suchter, the VP of Search Technology at Yahoo, was also deeply involved in Yahoo’s efforts to open up its search platform, initiatives the company has touted aggressively as a bright spot in its not-so-lustrous landscape.

Yahoo: We Try Harder?

in News on June 6, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Looks like Yahoo CFO Susan Decker was ahead of her time when, in January 2006, she more or less conceded the battle for search market share to Google. “We don’t think it’s reasonable to assume we’re going to gain a lot of share from Google,” she told Bloomberg. “It’s not our goal to be No. [...]