Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Current Event: Thanks, Yahoo!
What if I told you I would give you $1000 a minute to scrub the bathroom floor? Most people would be very eager to accept that offer. Now let us imagine instead of the cash, I allow you to take anything you find when cleaning the floor. Sounds like a grand ripoff compared to the first option. This is equivalent to the offer that Yahoo is making to those who find and report their bugs. While large companies like Facebook and Google offer substantial cash bounties for their bugs, Yahoo is offering next to nothing for theirs. In addition to the meager amount offered, it is being offered as in store credit on a specified subset of worthless Yahoo paraphernalia. I can't imagine why anyone would do this equivalent of floor scrubbing when such lucrative options exist elsewhere. Yahoo is apparently here to stay, but in order to compete with the other Goliath companies, they will need to take a look around and make some more compelling offers.
Article: http://www.geek.com/apps/yahoo-rewards-vulnerability-reporting-with-a-12-50-discount-voucher-1572317/
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I couldn't agree more, with the amount of companies out there that are willing to pay, Yahoo has to step up its game to stay with the latest and greatest. I'm always amazed though at what people are willing to do even though there are better offers out there, unfortunately I think there is still a number of people that miss the other opportunities and end up scrubbing Yahoo's floor for almost nothing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that isn't great. What is even more disturbing is that people will actually do it. That is the only way that Yahoo gets away with it. On a side note I heard that Yahoo is used more than Google now.
ReplyDeleteI like your analogy, I never thought of it that way.
ReplyDeleteIt is ridiculous, but Yahoo could be looking at more as a way to find self-motivated talent to hire, who knows exactly why they're doing this.
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