I'd like to see Yahoo ...
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If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency), it will serve us right. -- Alistair Cooke
Flickr? (Score:4, Insightful)
39% think it should be blown to smithereens?
What about Flickr?
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That right there is actually a very good reason not to let evil behemoths such as Microsoft anywhere Yahoo(!).
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MS won't destroy Yahoo! (Score:2)
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Yes, that's pretty much what I was saying. Except I tend to go a little further and state that anything gives more power to Microsoft, whether or not they destroy it, is a bad thing.
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I can't speak for the other people... (Score:2)
I can't speak for the other people who voted to blow it up, but I went that way because really I couldn't care less what happens to them. As the Mythbusters say, "when in doubt, c4!"
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I can't speak for the other people who voted to blow it up, but I went that way because really I couldn't care less what happens to them.
You don't want competition? I don't like Microsoft's business practices but I still want them around because of competition. Actually I wish we had more competition not less, with more competition there's more progress.
Falcon
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Yahoo isn't being competitive though, they haven't been spending enough on R&D to keep up with what Google is spending.
Personally, I voted for the Alderaan option just because of the sheer arrogance of turning down MS' huge offer trying to get more.
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Yahoo isn't being competitive though, they haven't been spending enough on R&D to keep up with what Google is spending.
Just because Yahoo! isn't spending as much as Google doesn't mean they not being competitive.
Personally, I voted for the Alderaan option just because of the sheer arrogance of turning down MS' huge offer trying to get more.
I was opposed to MS's offer too, and I've not invested in Yahoo! I want to start my own business and unless it were a humungous offer I wouldn't want to sell either. If I did sell I'd turn around and start another business.
Falcon
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There was a time where Yahoo was actually called the 800 pound gorilla of search. And yes, that was a long time ago, but it may explain the arrogance. I wonder what Google will do when it ends up looking back at its glory days.
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If you are under the impression that Yahoo is still in competition with Google and Bing
Yahoo! is still competition, it may not be much but it is competition [onelook.com]. Are you saying Yahoo! is trying to lose money?
The only real use for yahoo at this juncture is to inundate its users with advertisement.
If there are no eyeballs there are no advertizers. And even /. has ads. As does Bing and Google.
Falcon
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competition (Score:2)
Yahoo hasn't been competition for anyone in at least 5 years.
Yahoo! is not very effective but it is competition [onelook.com].
Falcon
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Yeah, if there'd been a "I don't care" option, I'd have gone with that. But the prospect of an "earth-shattering kaboom!" was hard to pass up.
The only service I use much anymore is yahoo groups, and I'm sure there are other free mailing list services out there. Oh, and I like to be a jerk on yahoo answers. I'm probably better off without that service.
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39% think it should be blown to smithereens?
What about Flickr?
yes blowing it up will make a great video that we can post on Fli.....Oh wait!
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I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
Besides, flikr would probably survive in core technology form and be released from being shackled to the bellowing Carnifex that is yahoo as it sinks into the ooze.
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You're kidding right? If you want to share even mediocre quality photos, Facebook is useless. Max of 720px per side (unless things have changed recently) + compressed to all hell means you can't even place a decent quality 1024x768 desktop background on that site for others to enjoy. Never mind print quality.
There's plenty of nice competitors to Flickr, but facebook is not one of them.
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End users don't care about pixels or print quality. Only two things matter: The subject is more or less recognizable and emotionally important to them, and they are making the proper consumer statement of spending more than their social competitors, or spending more on travel and/or recreation than their social competitors.
All the 4000x3000 pixels in the world won't help if the photo composition, focus, depth of focus, and lighting are horrific.
Facebook is useless.
... regardless of resolution ...
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Who is this "they"? I, for one, voted the Alderaan option because I think it should be blown up. Partly as an example (stop investing in R&D and offering a superior product? KABOOM), but mainly just because with Yahoo! Mail gone, the amount of spam from "trusted" domains would drop considerably.
Also, Yahoo's board deserves precisely this fate. You do not turn down an obscenely overpriced buyout offer unless you have some new development that is going to overnight make your company massively more val
Er, yahoo? (Score:2)
AOL should pick them up real cheap. Dunno why they would, tho. I'm sure AOL could actually make it useful and more organized.
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You mean like netscape, or winamp? They are so much more successful now that they're under the AOL umbrella!
Stop To Think, People: (Score:2, Interesting)
If Yahoo is given the Alderaan treatment, i.e. having its entire planet blown to smithereens, that includes YOU, TOO!
Morons....
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If Yahoo is given the Alderaan treatment, i.e. having its entire planet blown to smithereens, that includes YOU, TOO!
And your point?
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Think about this: What happened to Alderaan? Would you say that "its entire planet was blown up" or that "it was blown up"? Considering that Alderaan was the planet, it would have to be option two. Phrasing -- it matters!
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I think blowing up earth because yahoo has sucked for years would be hilarious.
Not that I would care much afterward.
Just sayin...
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I think blowing up earth because yahoo has sucked for years would be hilarious.
There are worse reasons. Like, the president signing something without reading it, e.g.
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I think blowing up earth because yahoo has sucked for years would be hilarious.
There are worse reasons. Like, the president signing something without reading it, e.g.
... or because we forgot to lodge a formal complaint at the Alpha Centauri local planning office. After all, the plans were there for 50 years.
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Observe the Anonymous Coward
(Jesticus Missedicorum)
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Alderaan was blown up in Star Wars.
So ot's equally valid to understand the collective mind of /. as actually wanting Yahoo! to be in Star Wars. And I'm pretty sure Lucas can, in fact, digitally insert Yahoo! into the upcoming 3D version of Star Wars . . .
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Alderaan didn't "have it's planet blown up", Alderaan was a planet, so the equivalency to Alderaan blowing up is Yahoo blowing up, not Earth blowing up.
Yahoo Mail and Flickr (Score:3)
I like these two. I use yahoo mail as my main (private) email application. I would hate to see this absorbed into hotmail. I don't see them surviving on their own for much longer though. Bing and Google seem to be the two biggest at the moment, with google the biggest by far. Bing is the default on windows and google is a verb... yahoo is just not a search destination anymore. Back in the days, I used to use search.yahoo.com quite a lot. Simple design and quick enough. But, I guess the world will move on.
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I use yahoo mail as my main (private) email application.
And I especially appreciate all of the ads you people email me in the signature.
Yahoo, the only email service where every email is spam.
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I'm on the same situation. It seems it's time we move our emails out of Yahoo!, and help it get the same fate as Aldebaran.
I really don't want to do that, but the idea of having them aquired by Microsoft and using Hotmail for important email makes me afraid.
I'm thinking about registering a domain now.
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Yahoo Japan is only partially owned by Yahoo and partially owned by SoftBank. It is probably due to SoftBank that it is so popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Japan [wikipedia.org]
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Not like, just use. I've had this Yahoo e-mail address for about 11-12 years. Kinda hard to let that go away.
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Hmm...not sure what planet you're from...but email is STILL very much alive and well.
I mean, maybe you don't have a real job yet...but in the business world, email still rules for the most part. Many businesses, especially if anything is secure at all, won't allow IM (at least not to the o
egroup? (Score:2)
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I only go on Yahoo because they bought eGroups (mailing lists), else, I about never went on it, and I'm on the net since about 1990, I was a lycos/altavista guy :)
I was using Yahoo! before it bought eGroups, I used Yahoo Clubs back then. After the switch to eGroups they went down though. One of them went from hundreds of posts a day to less than 100 post so far this year. I dropped out of others. For searches, I used mostly AltaVista and DMoz until switching to Google. But I still use Yahoo! mail.
Falcon
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I was using Yahoo before it was cool.
I was using Yahoo before it was cool to do things before they were cool.
Falcon
Fixed that for the both of you.
Google! (Score:4, Interesting)
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They have Bing already - and doing a not-too-bad job there it seems. Honestly I don't see what Yahoo! could bring to MS in terms of search expertise. For that sake MS could save a lot by just buying out some key staff of Yahoo! instead.
And yes it'd be good to see Google get some competition. MS is probably one of the few companies big enough to set up something on that scale though, any other competitors would have to start from scratch (like Google did themselves - albeit with the help of a pretty decent
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Wow. Excellent point.
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Because MS has done such a good job of all their online offerings to date?
I'm afraid that MS grabbing yahoo would mean the death of yahoo. Mind you, I haven't used yahoo in any meaningful way really ever. The internet, and the world are better off with Yahoo being Yahoo. We need more companies driving the internet, not less.
MS buying yahoo would be a bad call for MS as well. They don't need to spend more billions down a path of online presence than they're already haemorrhaging billions down, MS needs
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Seriously though, Google absolutely needs the competition. I hope MS acquires Y! and does something good with it.
It's pretty obvious what would happen when MS buys Yahoo!:
In 5 years time, nothing is left of Yahoo!
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Seriously though, Google absolutely needs the competition. I hope MS acquires Y! and does something good with it.
It's pretty obvious what would happen when MS buys Yahoo!:
In 5 years time, nothing is left of Yahoo!
Ummm... why would VMware spin off Zimbra?
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Who cares? (Score:2)
They're just one of those innumerable companes that have no effect on me. If they didn't exist, I would probably not even notice.
Marketing trash and javascript hell (Score:2)
With every improvement to email, TV listings, even the weather, the usability of each part of Yahoo just gets worse and worse. They can't even keep their *comics* page consistently updated. With every "improvement," I go somewhere else. The javascript options for each text field make things harder, not easier.
The best thing they could do would be to revert to what their site was in 1998. At least then, I could get to things and find information without wading through a sea of marketing trash and javascript
But surely ... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Darth Balmer?
That would explain a lot. So, that would make Bill the Emperor? Bill is Borg ... that would make Bill the Borg Queen
That would explain a lot. Either that or I'm stoned.
Like to see them survive (Score:2)
But without someone else coming in and mucking them up. Yahoo hosts my email for my DSL account, but I never login to their site for it, can't stand Yahoo's interfaces - buckets of annoying ads and such.
would like to know how babby is actually formed... (Score:2)
Although the original thread in Yahoo Answers is pretty informative, I do feel as though the responses don't really address the two clearly worded questions of the original poster. I see that the question has been asked again repeatedly in there since. If Yahoo could only just clearly answer the question once and for all, I might get behind them. Until then, my feeling is Alderaan chunks everywhere [adultswim.com]!
In the meantime, this [somethingawful.com] will have to do.
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Not viewable outside the USA.
sigh.
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Doyou mean the adultswim link (the Robot Chicken episode "Dinner with Vader [youtube.com]") or the somethingawful link (best riff yet on the 'how is babby formed [youtube.com]' meme). I'm curious about which great firewall of greed might be blocking non-US addresses.
The isps who use yahoo for email better watch out (Score:2)
Like British Telecom in the uk for its broadband clients. Maybe outsourcing email may cost them a huge amount of time and hassle, unless they join the bidders for say the bits of yahoo they deem of value.
YUI (Score:2)
They do have a neat set of api's. The YUI can be a pretty useful tool for web page design.
Suffer the same fate as Aldaraan == sold to MSFT? (Score:2)
I wonder though. If Yahoo was sold to Microsoft what would they get out of it that they don't have now? They'd probably blow it to bits and try to salvage some of the user base.....
I'd like to see Yahoo..... (Score:2)
I'd like to see Yahoo merge with T-Mobile.
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If I got to merge with the T-Mobile girl, I'd probably shout "Yahoo!".
Alderaan? (Score:2)
I have $5 (Score:2)
Can't be worth much more than that.
Oh god not Google (Score:2)
I have an old email account from Geocities. Yes, it still works, though I can only receive and not send.
When Yahoo bought Geocities, they folded all of the email accounts into their service, with a ".geo" appended to the end of the user name. So I have both a username@geocities.com and a username.geo@yahoo.com address.
I would hate to see what happens when Google buys their service, especially since I already have an account of theirs. My school decided decided to get Google-powered webmail accounts, so now
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Sounds more like the metalwork or math teacher who wound up with the job of IT Admin saw the Youtube check box, thought 'I don't want students using that at school!' and unticked it, disabling Youtube for your account. Which probably doesn't stop you from watching Youtube videos. Find whoever's responsible and hit them with a clue-by-four.
Apologies if your school has competent IT, I'm judging based on my own experiences.
What about? (Score:2)
Fired (Score:2)
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Yawho?
Fantasy Sports (Score:2)
That might be worth a few million.
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Yahoo isn't that bad. It just hasn't kept pace with the times, compared to Gmail, especially with regards to user authentication.
These days, it is a good idea to use two factor authentication for E-mail, and Gmail handles this, combined with the need for apps to access IMAP quite elegantly.
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I use yahoo mail for one reason and one reason alone -- ISPs don't let you run servers off a domestic account so I can't run my own private e-mail server. I do, however, run yahoo mail on the most basic mode possible because they can't write javascript. They also can't write a secure API - I've run across situations where I've upset script kiddies and had my account permanently cycle round to the re-authenticate page.
GMail is adequate for some things, but I almost dislike the interface more than yahoo mail
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I still us them for all my throwaway email accounts I know will fill up with spam. Whatever would I switch to?
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I still us them for all my throwaway email accounts I know will fill up with spam. Whatever would I switch to?
I set up another gmail account a while back ( a few months after yahoo started sporadically sending "undeliverable" replies to all my corporate junk mailing lists, prompting even more junk mail asking to update my email address :-P )
Works pretty well, I can now check both gmail accounts direct from my Android phone, log into both at once from gmail, and uninstall my Yahoo! mail app.
Only downside is that Google knows more about what I do. Oh well. :-/
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Whatever would I switch to?
spamgourmet.com [spamgourmet.com].
duh!!
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I still us them for all my throwaway email accounts I know will fill up with spam. Whatever would I switch to?
Hotmail is a good substitute for throwaway email addresses you don't care about.
Re:Ya-who? (Score:4, Funny)
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It's mind boggling that they're still around in the 2010... T
I fear your mind has been boggled already ... where did the last 12 months go?
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It's mind boggling that they're still around in the 2010... T
I fear your mind has been boggled already ... where did the last 12 months go?
Which extra two months have you experienced? I'm only in the tenth month since 2010...
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Thank you (Score:2)
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never found anything I looked for on Yahoo but they were happy enough to spam the screen with a dyslexic's nightmare worth of clutter.
Their web design philosophy has always been the opposite of google. Where google says "what can we remove while still providing service" yahoo has always asked "is it technically possible to wedge some more into one page?". Highest possible information density vs lowest possible information density.
I was shocked to recently discover that yahoo and AOL put together pretty much own the genre of "tech for non techs" websites and blogs. They are absolutely HUGE in that genre. The type that thinks being "in
Well, let me help you out (Score:2)
Twitter is for things you like. If there's a local restaurant you like, maybe they will send notices of their daily specials now and then. If there's a musician you like, maybe they'll let their followers know that tour dates have been announced or that their new album is almost out. Going to a convention? The convention feed might let you know when event schedules change. Maybe a columnist you like will make occasional points that supplement their regular writing.
"But we have email!" I guess you are saying
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Yeah, I had the same problem.
Best use of Twitter I've found so far is just a "social cloud" replacement for rss feeds for all the sites you frequent (assuming there's more than the handful you read religiously every day anyway).
The only real "content" I've ever seen on twitter that was worth reading is @ShitMyDadSays, but now you can just buy the book.
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I used to use Yahoo for groups a little, but not really much. But the main thing that I use Yahoo! for daily now is Yahoo finance. The company details, good graphing options and real-time stock prices as well as portfolio tracking (in real time with full transaction history and taking into account transaction fees etc) is what I like about it. Any good alternatives to that?
Only every search engine and stock brokerage in the entire world. That's all.
Its like my neighbor chopping down his backyard apple tree and me wondering where the world will get apples now.
Why if YHOO went out of business, I'd... umm... not even notice... now that you mention it, are they still in business?
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Yahoo no longer has any search technology, their search system is powered by Bing. :(
Maybe not so quick (Score:2)
Sold to Microsoft = You will be assimilated until there's nothing left but a gelatinous blob
Sold to Oracle = We will make you more and more obnoxious until no one wants to use you anymore
Sold to HP = We will pretend we're going to do great thing with you, then annihilate you when you least expect it
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No MS, Oracle or HP would suck all life out of it. This is completely different from being blown up. However, it is definitely more unpleasant.
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If it's hidden it's because that's how you have it set up. I can see both your comments just fine.