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Yahoo exec on competing with Google
Created: 04/18/2007
Video description: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, author and blogger John Battelle talks with Yahoo Executive Vice President Jeff Weiner about the company's media and partnership strategies and how they differ from those of Yahoo's main rival, search giant Google.

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