Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ...
by flexie on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:47PM
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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?
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Re:Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet ...
by gdulli on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:56PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.