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0 pointsjjeaff3y ago0 comments

I cannot understand how. Do they have some big deals with some vendors to be the default on cheap laptops or something? Otherwise, who is using yahoo search?

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timcederman3y ago· 2 in thread

My muscle memory from 1995-1997 to test network connectivity is to ping yahoo.com.

zxcvbn40383y ago

During the ‘90s I pinged yahoo servers 24x7 to keep the inactivity timeout from dropping my connection. Then one day the phone rang - and I discovered they had blocked ICMP so my connection dropped.

There were so many telemarketers pounding my phone that anytime I got disconnected the phone would ring within thirty seconds and that would be my cue to go investigate.

twelve403y ago

I'm sure this is exactly what keeps the site in the top 20

moomoo113y ago· 1 in thread

I like yahoo finance. Also when it seems like slack is having whatever issue and won’t load I open up yahoo to see if it’s my internet that’s the problem.

Muscle memory from my childhood days when I’d type in yahoo and edit my avatar lol.

mateo4113y ago

I suspect they are the most popular Fantasy Football platform.

Yahoo focused on building a large collection of different sites. I don't think search for Yahoo was ever very good, but they could accumulate reach by capturing different audiences.

largepeepee3y ago· 1 in thread

They target specific niches now like finance, sports etc and certain geographical locations.

Yahoo Japan for example is a large part of their traffic.

midoridensha3y ago

No, it's not. Yahoo Japan has nothing to do with the Yahoo in this article.

exogeny3y ago

Sports, News, and Finance. Those verticals are all MASSIVE. Remember, just because you don't use them, that doesn't mean no one does.

My opinion, news is pretty clickbaity but Sports (particularly the season-long fantasy games) and Finance are both still best-in-class. It's borderline amazing how resilient they've been.

riffraff3y ago

I use yahoo finance regularly, I do not know anything better.

helsinkiandrew3y ago

It must be deals to be the default page and Yahoo still seems to be the preferred end point for search redirect malware:

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/yahoo-toolbar-removal/

kevin_thibedeau3y ago

Yahoo includes many AOL properties that still have a following.

LVB3y ago

Maybe no one, but I know a ton of people using it for news, sports, finance, …

zuminator3y ago

My primary personal mail account is still a Yahoo Mail account that was spun off from Verizon some years ago. But I haven't used their search in... I'm gonna guess 15 years?

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