Yahoo loses VP of consumer search, to Accel Partners

Yahoo loses VP of consumer search, to Accel Partners

Yahoo, the Sunnyvale search engine trying to stem shrinkage of its market share in search, has lost a key search executive to a venture capital firm.

Andrew Braccia quietly quit as Yahoo’s vice president of consumer web search earlier this month, and begins tomorrow (Monday) with Accel Partners, a well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

The departure comes after a particularly tough time for Yahoo and Microsoft, both ceding ground to Google in search (see most recent… Continue Reading