Marissa Mayer Is Doing To Make Yahoo More like Google

Mariss Mayer - CEO of Yahoo

Amit Efrati – a reporter of The Wall Street Journal takes a great look at everything about Marissa Mayer who has changed at Yahoo in her first few weeks on the job. Efrati points out several of these changes borrow from the Google playbook.

Amit Efrati – a reporter of The Wall Street Journal takes a great look at everything about Marissa Mayer new CEO of Yahoo who has changed at Yahoo in her first few weeks on the job. Efrati points out several of these changes borrow from the Google playbook.

For example, it has already been reported that several of Yahoo's offices now offer free food for employees and Mayer holds weekly "FYI" meetings for yahoo employees. It turns out these changes are just the tip of the iceberg on the ocean.

Efrati has also uncovered several ways that Mayer is trying to make Yahoo’s working environment more like as Google. We are here to share a few details from the Journal article:

• Mayer asks to approve all Yahoo engages, which are some tricks that Google's co-founders did for a long time.

•  She is urging that Yahoo to rely more heavily on analyzing data from users to make its decisions about whether to change or add new services, a common Google business strategy.

• Mayer has also offered to several current and former Google employees for executive positions at Yahoo.

• Mayer is now focusing more on Yahoo's existing programmers. She frequently talks with Yahoo's programmers through a special listserv called Dev Random and she is trying to hire more programmers from different giant company.

•  And of course, most fundamentally & logically, she is forcing Yahoo to focus on products rather than profits, a key to Google philosophy of its business.