Yahoo could emulate Apple in the 1990s in taking years to restore itself to competitive health, CEO Carol Bartz told reporters during a March 2 event to commemorate Yahoo’s 15th anniversary. Although Yahoo has aggressively sought to expand its more popular features while cutting underperforming applications and programs, the company has seen its U.S. search-engine market share decline in recent months. A 10-year agreement with Microsoft will see Bing power Yahoos back-end search, allowing Yahoo to focus primarily on designing its offerings in ways that appeal to a broad number of users.
– Yahoo could take years to return to strength, according to
CEO Carol Bartz, who compared her struggling
Internet company to Apple circa the return of Steve Jobs as
CEO in 1997.

quot;It took him four years, quot; Bartz told the Associated Press and other media during a March 2 meeting to
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