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"Marissa Mayer has said she wants to make Flickr \"awesome again,\" and now she is bringing on an exec from Google to help do so.\nYahoo hired former Google exec Bernardo Hernandez to take over as the head of Flickr. Hernandez joined Google in 2005 and held several marketing positions before taking over as the head of Zagat, which Google acquired in late 2011. \nSee also: Marissa Mayer's First Year at Yahoo: Don't Call It a Comeback\nHernandez announced his move to Yahoo in a post on Twitter:\n\nI am very happy to say that as of tomorrow I will be leading Flickr efforts at Yahoo. Amazing beautiful challenge. http://t.co/EhJbHIaxxH\n\u2014 Bernardo Hernandez (@BernieHernie) August 6, 2013\n\nAllThingsD reports that Hernandez was one of Mayer's \"favorite\" coworkers when she worked at Google and that he has actually been at Yahoo for \"some weeks\" in an unspecified role. \nMayer was quick to chime in publicly on his hiring:\n\nWelcome! \u201C@BernieHernie: I am very happy to say I will be leading Flickr at Yahoo. Amazing beautiful challenge. http://t.co/3segwRikZ8\u201D\n\u2014 marissamayer (@marissamayer) August 7, 2013\n\nMayer, who worked at Google immediately prior to taking over as CEO of Yahoo, has recruited several top execs from her former employer, including Henrique de Castro as COO, Anne Espiritu as PR director and Patricia Moll Kriese as senior director.\nDuring her first year in the CEO position, Mayer has worked to revamp several core Yahoo products, including Flickr, which Yahoo acquired in 2005 only to let languish for years. Earlier this year, Yahoo overhauled the look of Flickr and increased the amount of free storage users get to one terabyte. \nImage: Flickr, Ningunterra\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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