Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by signaru on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:16AM (#22605014)

I think the real news here is that people still use these search engines. :D

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by Frost1x on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:23AM (#22605061)

"OneSearch" is completely new to me. I know Yahoo has a decent market in Asia, Japan I believe. I'm always surprised to see AOL mentioned in any context outside of history anymore.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by betamaxthetape on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:42AM (#22605224)

Note that Yahoo! Japan is separate from Yahoo. When Verizon bough Yahoo, certain patents, holdings and investments were not part of the sale and were spun off into a new business called Altaba.

The (minority) stake in Yahoo! Japan that was owned by Yahoo is now owned by Altaba. Probably the only connection between Yahoo and Yahoo! Japan is the name, which Yahoo! Japan license from Verison.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-verizon-idUSKCN...

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by BitwiseFool on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:46AM (#22605279)

Such an uninspired name.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by d2wa on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:07PM (#22607182)

It’s an old codename for Yahoo! Search’s in-house search engine. Back in the day when they still had one.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by pergadad on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:45AM (#22605988)

Lots of people tricked through browser toolbars and self-installing "configuration CDs" i guess

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by dna_polymerase on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:57AM (#22605440)

I see those on computers run buy laymen who somehow installed one of those nasty toolbars that change the default search to Yahoo or other stuff.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by d2wa on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:17PM (#22607309)

Some of their success can be explained by the tyranny of the default. Some browsers use these search engine by default in some regions, and people don’t tend to change the defaults. I don’t know for sure, but I’d be surprised if Verizon don’t set it as the default on at least some of the devices they sell. Didn’t they recently announce Yahoo! Mobile as a cellphone service too?

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by rajlego on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:34PM (#22607547)

Surprised to see they're launching Yahoo Mobile in the west but there actually already is a ymobile in Japan that I personally use for data/calling. I use my own phone with it but I can't imagine them being able to set yahoo as default on any iphone or android phone they sell

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