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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by ogre_codes on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:06PM (#22608032)
> It's pretty safe to say the only people using those search engines are people who really like aol or yahoo properties for some reason.

People who use Yahoo/ AOL are people who use those sites out of habit and are happier with the crap experience they get there than learning new technologies. My mom and one of my former bosses were tied to Yahoo & AOL respectively and it was 100% just the comfort of the devil they knew.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by tracker1 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:47PM (#22610220)
My grandmother (before she passed) used Yahoo as her homepage and main search from there... It's what I originally put on her computer long before Yahoo got bad, and it's what she stuck with as a result. It was actually painful to see...
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