Reply to: The rise and fall of Yahoo

[NickFitz]

Before Google came along I used Alta Vista

Before Google came along, Yahoo! wasn't a search engine. They added search in 2000, and until 2004 their search capability was provided by... Google.

[DS23]

Yahoo must be doing something right because I spend all fooking day pissing around on the internet and I haven't looked at their site for at least ten years.

yahoo. the only mitch piss free site on the internet

[Mich the Tester]

She's pregnant

Shhh, we're trying to keep it secret.

[Mich the Tester]

Would you sleep with the boss, just for a promotion?



Well would ya?

yes

In fact, most blokes would do it and happily be downgraded to tape changer.

[Spacecadet]

Would you sleep with the boss, just for a promotion?



Well would ya?

She's pregnant

[Mich the Tester]

Yahoo must be doing something wrong because I spend all fooking day pissing around on the internet and I haven't looked at their site for at least ten years.

[hyperD]

I'd hump her leg just for a demotion to Leg Hump Boy.

[DimPrawn]

Would you sleep with the boss, just for a promotion?



Well would ya?

[Spacecadet]

Yahoo! Poaches! New! CEO! From! Google! ? The Register

New CEO at Yahoo!

[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?

[BoredBloke]

Is that the same as Last.fm?

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

[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]

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]

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.

[Troll]

Yahoo have hired a new Chief Executive now.

I rather think I would....