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Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by flexie on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:47PM (#11456482)
Interesting that it's still considered such a popular brand. Although I know the brand I haven't typed 'yahoo' in the address bar or a search engine for years. I actually think this was the first time I wrote it anywhere for years, except in peoples' email. I don't think anyone I know have either. Never hear any mentioning of it except in tech circles like here. Do people really go there?
Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by gdulli on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:56PM (#11456558)
Kind of hubristic to extrapolate your own experience to the whole world and kind of provincial to extrapolate just the people in your direct experience to the whole world.
Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by flexie on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:09PM (#11456656)
Kind of a lot to conclude from my questions and kind of a wrong use of the words hubristic and provincial.
Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by henrikschroder on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:32PM (#11456816)
If only there was a way to find out if people go there...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites

Sorry for being snarky, but seriously, not knowing that Yahoo is a top 5 destination is embarrassing if you work in the web business.

Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by jonknee on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:04PM (#11456614)
AOL still has a profitable dial-up business. Your use of the internet has nothing to do with Yahoo's popularity.
Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by habosa on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:54PM (#11456533)
In some countries (Japan is the biggest) Yahoo is still dominant on the web.
Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ... by astrange on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:44PM (#11456891)
Yahoo Japan is run by its own company these days, so Yahoo buyers are only getting a minority stake in it.

Among other things they have the best map data and the largest auction site.