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Yahoo comes full circle with retreat from search (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company’s co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.

Quoted: Yahoo CEO and UW-Madison alumna Carol Bartz