Yesterday was Analyst Day for Yahoo. They have posted the PowerPoint (188 pages worth) on the Yahoo website. It's a lot to go through, but has some interesting slides.
Jeff Weiner, SVP of Yahoo! Search and MarketPlace, did an interesting presentation on their view of SocialSearch. Yahoo's vision uses the acronym FUSE - for Find, Use, Share, Expand, as shown in this diagram.
Yahoo! really seems to have thought through their strategy, leveraging Social Search (Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Groups), social bookmarking (delicious) and social media (Flickr and a tbd video service) to drive revenue. The revenue model is shown in the graphic below. I think this vision is a real differentiator from Google, whose initial efforts (like Google Notebook) have been uninspired.
For more commentary on Yahoo! Analyst Day, check out Rafat Ali on how Yahoo is trying to catch up to Google in revenue per search, or take a look at ...not much else. Surprisingly, Yahoo Analyst Day got hardly any coverage on the main search engine and tech blogs, compared to pretty extensive coverage of Google Press Day.
Update: John Battelle has added a few brief thoughts and will be interviewing Jeff Weiner tomorrow.
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