Gadgetory

long time Google executive Marissa Mayer is trading one search company for another on Tuesday mayor begins a new job as CEO at Yahoo on Monday she resigned from her VP post at Google she was the company's first female higher right now is a great time do you women in tech but there's not enough women intact during her 13-year tenure mayor oversaw many of Google's most successful products she's credited with making the simplistic look of Google's homepage with gmail with all with maps now with location with doing things in a very clean elegant style and that is something Yahoo certainly can use yahoo a one-time tech darling now ranks a distant third in market share for search mayor will be the sixth person to occupy the CEO office in the past five years and though she is experienced charismatic well-spoken and has the technical chops turning yahoo around will require a Herculean effort she's 37 she's number two she was number 20 employee of Google I think she's worth quite a bit of money she you know what kind of better challenge could there be to me it seems like a huge opportunity this could be a total career defining moment for in a press release from yahoo ms mayor said there is a lot to do and i can't wait to get started the hiring new surprised many tech analysts who assumed interim CEO Ross Levinsohn would be appointed to take the helm permanently and mayor's name never appeared on any shortlist in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News