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Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by dmix on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:37PM (#11710828)
I forgot they bought Tumblr

= 50 million visitors/month https://siteanalytics.compete.com/tumblr.com/

Yahoo Answers is still a big useless SEO machine

= 50 million users/month https://siteanalytics.compete.com/answers.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Sports is very popular from what I understand

= 12 million users https://siteanalytics.compete.com/sports.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Finance, ditto

= 14 million visitors/month https://siteanalytics.compete.com/finance.yahoo.com/

Yahoo News, ditto

= 20 million visitors/month https://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.yahoo.com/

Yahoo mail is still doing alright isn't it?

= 50 million users https://siteanalytics.compete.com/mail.yahoo.com/

Flickr is still ranked pretty high on Alexa but on a definite decline: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flickr.com

= 15 million visitors/month: https://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.yahoo.com/

Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by simula67 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @01:20AM (#11711493)
Except for Finance and maybe Tumblr, aren't all these services fading ?

* Yahoo Answers

Quora ( 100M users [1] ) and Stack Exchange is now the default question & answer sites.

* Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports

Google news and search ( 44% of Google searchers scan the news results [2] ) already provide these features. I used to use Yahoo Live Scores, but now I use Google.

* Yahoo mail

Gmail ( 1B users [3] and grew 100 Million users just last year )

* Flickr

Google Photos ( 100M users in 5 months [4] )

It seems like Google Finance is losing [5] as they see it as part of search but it appears there is a need for a good separate product here. Tumblr looks to be a runaway success ( 227 million registered accounts, more than double the number of accounts a year prior and more than 37 million unique visitors [6]), no match for Wordpress yet ( WordPress.com records 126M unique visitors per month [7] ), but the social aspects looks to work in Tumblr's favor.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/21/quora-claims-10-of-u-s-pop...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/19/outsell-google-news/

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/gmail-now-has-more-than-1b-...

[4] http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/20/9576713/google-photos-100...

[5] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-finance-yahoo-finance-...

[6] http://www.statista.com/topics/2463/tumblr/

[7] https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpres...

Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by vonmoltke on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:57AM (#11714177)
> * Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports

> Google news and search ( 44% of Google searchers scan the news results [2] ) already provide these features. I used to use Yahoo Live Scores, but now I use Google.

Yahoo Sports is a lot more than just sports news and scores. The traffic is heavily driven by fantasy sports, which Google doesn't have.