Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts

Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts by kristianc on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @10:27AM (#3797720)

Really? Top three stories on Yahoo News UK right now are "Driver survives 200ft truck plunge", "Labrador 'adopts' abandoned duckling" and "Flying car cleared for takeoff" [1]

By what metric exactly is Yahoo News still the top news site?

[1] http://uk.news.yahoo.com/

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Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts by byrneseyeview on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @11:34AM (#3798022)

By what metric exactly is Yahoo News still the top news site?

ComScore. Yahoo gets an enormous amount of traffic: Alexa also considers Yahoo as a whole the #4 site (behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo). And Y recently hired a White House correspondent (http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-hires-first-white-house-correspo...) and has made some other fun hires in the reporting space.

My friends who work in tech don't visit Yahoo. But my extended family in the Midwest sure does!

Full disclosure: I work at Y, but definitely don't speak for Y. If you have ComScore access, you can double-check the "#1" stat I cited.

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Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts by ojbyrne on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @12:33PM (#3798325)

"Alexa also considers Yahoo as a whole the #4 site (behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo)"

From looking at Alexa, I believe your second "Yahoo" should have been "YouTube."

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Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts by byrneseyeview on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @03:00PM (#3799234)

You're right. The "edit" button has expired.

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Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts by hyperbovine on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @11:04AM (#3797889)

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites

Take your pick.

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Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts by veguss on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @01:24PM (#3798653)

I think the news is personalized :)

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