The rise and fall of Yahoo

[DimPrawn]

Should have got into cloud computing instead. Then you'd find yourself in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Mountain View all the time.

Is the Rose and Crown still going in downtown Palo Alto?

Used to be my regular that one.

[MarillionFan]

Is the Rose and Crown still going in downtown Palo Alto?

Used to be my regular that one.

Last time I went in it was being run by a Pakistani and was showing a German football match???

[AtW]

Should have got into cloud computing instead. Then you'd find yourself in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Mountain View all the time.

Are they better than Birmingham (England)?

[fullyautomatix]

Yahoo have hired a new Chief Executive now.

[Troll]

Yahoo have hired a new Chief Executive now.

I rather think I would....

[d000hg]

I've never understood how people can consider free web offerings that are based on a model of presenting advertisements to users of a free service to be viable commodities. They always seem to fall down on two main counts:

1. People aren't stupid
2. Adblock Plus exists

Companies like LinkedIn and GroupOn, whilst they turn over a lot, have never been profitable. And I'm pretty sure that the likes of Google and Facebook, who seem to get by in the advertising world by ignoring privacy and antitrust issues like there was no tomorrow, are grossly over-valued too.

LinkedIn is profitable. FaceBook is profitable. And Google - they're VERY profitable.

Saying Google's going to collapse because it's "only advertising" is pretty bloody stupid. Advertising is massive business - look at how much it costs to run an ad on TV and that doesn't even let you click a link.

[BoredBloke]

Yahoo used to do a thing called Launchcast which I used to death. Then it suddenly stopped. It was like having your own radio station that streamed the music you told it you liked. It would then use you list iof likes and find the music that others liked who also liked the stuff you liked...like! I liked that! Ive hardly touched them since that stopped. They ran an ad free version in the US where you subscribed but not outside Europe. Had they offered it in the Uk I probably would have subscribed. Also the US site had much more of a rock slant than the UK/EU based one.

[d000hg]

Yahoo used to do a thing called Launchcast which I used to death. Then it suddenly stopped. It was like having your own radio station that streamed the music you told it you liked. It would then use you list iof likes and find the music that others liked who also liked the stuff you liked...like! I liked that! Ive hardly touched them since that stopped. They ran an ad free version in the US where you subscribed but not outside Europe. Had they offered it in the Uk I probably would have subscribed. Also the US site had much more of a rock slant than the UK/EU based one.

Is that the same as Last.fm?

[BoredBloke]

Is that the same as Last.fm?

Yes it is, but the yahoo one was 10 years ago!

[Sysman]

Anybody on here who does not have a grudge against Yahoo?

Thought so ...

No grudge here but I don't remember using them.

Before Google came along I used Alta Vista

Who remembers Archie and Gopher?