Dirty Tricks

Yesterday, I was on the Yahoo Home page and I saw the following:



That circle in the upper left hand corner is trying to highlight a Yahoo advertisement for the new Firefox 3. I find this absolutely ridiculous in light of the recent failed hostile takeover attempt.

Now, had they done that the day after the hostile takeover talks finished, I probably would have thought, "Okay, Yahoo is trying to be funny or even obnoxious, but at least its kind of topical and timely"

However, considering that the new version of Firefox came out about two weeks ago...its not obnoxious or funny in a good way. Its being done immediately before the release of the new Internet Explorer 8 update.

Well Yahoo, if you guys want to stoop to that level, here is something for you:



Apparently, despite using the great new Firefox 3, they can't notice that they spelled "Flat" wrong for over 75 seconds ON THEIR BIGGEST HEADLINE.

For the longest time, I thought that it was only the management was incompetent. Apparently, EVERYONE in that entire company is incompetent.

-Mansij Hans, E.I.T.
Member, Intigril Capital Management

Disclosure: Intigril Capital Management is long Microsoft at the time of publishing of the "Dirty Tricks" article.