My own impression of Yahoo from years back is that if something as critical as the YUI toolkit sucked, which it did, then Yahoo had limited prospects.<p>Perhaps an odd thing to base an opinion on, but compare stock charts on Google versus stock charts on Yahoo. The Yahoo ones were clunky and sucked.<p>Compare Yahoo Mail with GMail, and Yahoo sucked in comparison, being riddled with giant ad-banners.<p>Even now, Yahoo search results suck, which is really noticeable when FireFox periodically resets my search engine to Yahoo. Suddenly my results suck, and back to Google I go.<p>I don&#x27;t know what Marissa Meyer has been doing, because it doesn&#x27;t seem to be apparent in Yahoo getting better at anything really.