Steve Souders, the guy who wrote the book on making websites faster, will leave Yahoo next week for Google. He probably just wanted a new title. How long can you take yourself seriously when you hand out business cards that read "Chief Performance Yahoo"? Either that or Souders, who had been with the company since 2000, realizes that making Yahoo's websites run faster is like improving the efficiency of the Titanic's steam engines.

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