Comments on: BoomTown Pick for Microsoft Digital Head: Qi Lu (Yes, the Former Yahoo Search Guru)

By: Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely to Be Named Microsoft’s Digital Head by Next Week | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:59:45 +0000

[...] I raised Lu’s name in a post several weeks ago as Ballmer’s top choice. [...]

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:59:55 +0000

p.s. this is the problem with Microsoft, it’s hiring the benchwarmers. The real talent went to Google, not Yahoo.

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:59:04 +0000

why would Microsoft want Qi Lu? Yahoo’s search has always been terrible. If Qi Lu was responsible for Yahoo losing search share due to poor results and technology then hiring him is like hiring the Captain of the HMS Titanic to take over your own sinking ship, HMS AlsoSinking

By: Musical Chairs at MSN: Here’s a Partial Scorecard of What’s What | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:13:27 +0000

[...] While he has looked at a lot of execs from inside and outside the company, I recently posted that Ballmer’s latest quarry is former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu. [...]

By: It’s Official: Yahoo Search Exec Suchter to Microsoft | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:42:16 +0000

[...] former major Yahoo search exec could also be going to Microsoft. I wrote a post earlier today that I thought the Ballmer was looking at Qi Lu–the well-regarded Search and Advertising Technology group EVP at Yahoo, who left earlier this [...]

By: Mike Kane

Mike Kane — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:02:29 +0000

another stroke of genuise by the Yahoo’s boys. Doesn’t it strike anyone else as strange that YHOO couldn’t get the new CEO it really wants, or to get him sit on the board because AOL is enforcing a non-compete, but YHOO is bleeding (purple) executives to MSFT by the droves and there doesn’t appear to be a covenant anywhere in sight. Way to go boys..