There are two Jerry Yangs you may come across on the Google. Well, actually, there are probably a few thousand Jerry Yangs you will come across on the Google, but most of the matches will be for one of these two. The following information should help you differentiate.

The Jerry Yang on the left is the 2007 World Series of Poker champion. He is generally pictured looking cool in his shades, or perhaps with a pile of cash.

The Jerry Yang on the right is the CEO of Yahoo (YHOO), who has run that company’s shares into the ground to avoid an acquisition by Microsoft, who has now been dissed by Google on a revenue-sharing deal we all knew was never going to happen anyway because Google doesn’t need to revenue-share with anyone, and who can’t even figure out what kind of company Yahoo is supposed to be long enough to write a one-sentence vision statement.

Memo to Yahoo: GOOG stole your title as search giant, and you have not been successful in finding something else to do — so selling when MSFT was blind/bored/just annoyed by all that cash on their books/whatever enough to try to buy you would have been the best decision possible for shareholders. I wouldn’t dump the Haterade if this were just a search-engine also-ran we were talking about here, but personally, I lost all respect for Yahoo right around the time OMG was launched.