Yahoo! appointed Marissa Mayer! as new Chief Executive Officer

Marissa Mayer, a top executive of Google, has been named the new CEO of web giant Yahoo!. 

"I am honored and delighted to lead Yahoo!, one of the premier destinations of internet for more than 700+ million users. I look forward to work with the Company’s employees to bring innovative products, content, and personalized my experiences to users and advertisers all around the world," Mayer said it in a press release which named Business Insider. 

This source from   The New York Times' DealBook, which broke the news as: The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and was one of the few talent of the company like Google, is considered a surprising moved to Yahoo, which has struggled in recent couple of years to attract users in its battle with competitors like Google & Facebook.

She was the first female engineer of Google, will now serve as President and CEO of Yahoo, according to Yahoo's official press release. She was vice president of Google's local, maps and location services & was responsible for the well looking of many widely used Google products, specially the Google home page.

"I preferred to work at Google because most of people were smart there," Mayer told to The Huffington Post last July. "And I also wanted to work at Google because I felt absolutely unprepared to work at a search engine."

Most of the internal people had expected that Yahoo to appoint it’s interim CEO Ross Levinsohn to CEO position. Levinsohn had stepped in after the brief stint of Scott Thompson, Yahoo chief from January to May in this year. Thompson, whose time with Yahoo ended abruptly a scandal over discrepancies on his resume, after that Yahoo appointed Carol Bartz, CEO from January 2009 through September 2011.

The announcement of Yahoo seems as a surprise to some Google employees. Google ex-software engineer Stephen Lau wrote "What the…. I don't even," posted by Lau, in reference to the Times story about the Mayer's new position.

Later on Monday evening, Mayer tweeted ,” I'm incredibly excited to start my new role at Yahoo! Tomorrow”. Google CEO Larry Page said to Marketing Land:

“Marissa has been a tireless champion to our competitor as well. She contributed huge activities to the development of our Search, Geo, and Local products. We will miss her talents at Google.” 

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