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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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