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Does anyone here still use Yahoo! ? RIP?

  • 27-03-2016 7:45pm
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Anyone here use Yahoo!?

    How is Yahoo! still in existence? Once upon a time it was the darling of the internet, it was the favorite search engine (it's true!), but suddenly people just stopped using it. The funny thing is it's not hard to see why. Compared to Google and Bing it looks and feels almost the same as it did in 2005.

    For the uninitiated...

    https://ie.yahoo.com/?p=us

    Looks like the days are numbered. Be sad to see it go for posterity but they seemed to just be too lazy to keep up.

    The CEO is alright though ;) Even though i'd imagine she'll be removed in the not too distant future. Not that it will matter cause imo the brand is damaged goods.


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  • #2
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,542 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    still to the good, for now at least.....


  • #3
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Prefer it to Google.


  • #4
    Brindor
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭Brindor


    Yahoo is the Bing of search engines, which was in return the Myspace of Search Engines.


  • #5
    Rowen Limited Plantation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rowen Limited Plantation


    Yahoo mail is excellent.


  • #6
    doc11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭doc11


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Anyone here use Yahoo!?

    How is Yahoo! still in existence? Once upon a time it was the darling of the internet, it was the favorite search engine (it's true!), but suddenly people just stopped using it. The funny thing is it's not hard to see why. Compared to Chrome and even Edge it looks and feels almost the same as it did in 2005.

    For the uninitiated...

    https://ie.yahoo.com/?p=us

    Looks like the days are numbered. Be sad to see it go for posterity but they seemed to just be too lazy to keep up.

    The CEO is alright though ;) Even though i'd imagine she'll be removed in the not too distant future. Not that it will matter cause imo the brand is damaged goods.
    yahoo is a website while chrome and edge are web browsers so I don't know how you compare them


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  • #7
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    doc11 wrote: »
    yahoo is a website while chrome and edge are web browsers so I don't know how you compare them

    Indeed! My mistake!


  • #8
    X6.430macman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭X6.430macman


    Yahoo mail I find is waaaay better than any other of the ones I have used and easier to use too I find.


  • #9
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Yahoo!
    - Yahoo!, up 6 1/4.
    Huh? What is this crap?
    - Fox Broadcasting, down 8


  • #10
    bbbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭bbbbb


    It's big in Japan apparanyly
    I think they have an auctions site
    https://www.similarweb.com/country/japan


  • #11
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Yahoo radio was a great service, I used to use it constantly, it was terrible until you rated about 100-200 tracks but after that point it would play some great music and help you find new music all the time.
    Sad it died, it was well ahead of its time


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  • #12
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    It always just seemed oddly put together. Just didnt work well. Was great in the early days for free/porn/dating email addresses, but times have moved on.


  • #13
    powerstar
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭powerstar


    doc11 wrote: »
    yahoo is a website while chrome and edge are web browsers so I don't know how you compare them

    Yahoo is a search engine also


  • #14
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Vale,is it the way you don't need the porn anymore?


  • #15
    Grace Square Skirmish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭ Grace Square Skirmish


    Well Yahoo employs about 400+ people in Ireland, maybe more. So hopefully for their sake it will stick around a good while longer. Search is one of it's smaller products. It's huge in the US, UK, France, Japan, Australia, Brazil, etc etc.

    Myer pulled the company out of the shítter, just take a look at the share prices. It's still not perfect and Myer may not have what it takes to put the company on track. It's not a poor reflection on the woman or her skills, shareholders just want to see 2000 share prices tomorrow, and that's not going to happen. It could take some years to get the company to where they want it, and that's if it ever happens. Worldwide, Yahoo is in the top 10 websites in the world, a pretty big feat. Yahoo have some great products, I for one love Flickr :)


  • #16
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Water John wrote: »
    Vale,is it the way you don't need the porn anymore?

    Maybe....or just other services have moved forward.....or both!!


  • #17
    Xaracatz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Xaracatz


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The funny thing is it's not hard to see why.

    I don't get it. :/

    I used to love Yahoo Answers though. Got loads of points by answering questions like "Why does my head hurt after banging it off a wall for three hours?".


  • #18
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users Posts: 28,392 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    So if you still use Yahoo! you're at risk of dying?


  • #19
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    I use Lycos. :o


  • #20
    BizWiz66
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭BizWiz66


    Yahoo Search is still at 12% usage in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search


  • #21
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Yahoo is rubbish.

    I used to use it a lot during the dial up connection days.


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  • #22
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    My main e-mail address is with Yahoo! It's actually @yahoo.ca even though I've never been to Canada or have any links to the place. I set it up in 1999, I think.


  • #23
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Just seems to me like they took a long, hard look at what everyone liked best about Yahoo. Then started systematically stripping away those aspects.

    I dropped Messenger, the moment I worked out that they'd done away with the audible alerts to incoming email.


  • #24
    beach_walker
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 976 ✭✭✭beach_walker


    Brindor wrote: »
    Yahoo is the Bing of search engines

    Yahoo search is powered by Bing.


  • #25
    topmanamillion
    Registered Users Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    Yahoo mail all the way.
    Search engine not so much. Prefer Google.


  • #26
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Hotmail and Yahoo mail still have more accounts than Gmail I believe.


  • #27
    Icaras
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Icaras


    Yahoo weather and sport are great. They seem to be doing some great bits/apps but I can't understand why their home pages are so crap, seem to be mostly daily mail level articles - maybe thats the level they are aiming for.


  • #28
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Xaracatz wrote: »
    I don't get it. :/

    I used to love Yahoo Answers though. Got loads of points by answering questions like "Why does my head hurt after banging it off a wall for three hours?".

    Hmm, that sounds a lot like AH. Pity you don't get points here though.


  • #29
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Rowen Limited Plantation wrote: »
    Yahoo mail is excellent.

    do they still wipe out all your emails if you do not log on for a while? This is why I went off yahoo and hotmail. I snapped up gmail addresses for my family when it first came out and some only got around to using them a year or so ago.

    I see yahoo give 1TB of free storage. My gmail is finally filling up to its 15GB limit.


  • #30
    Rowen Limited Plantation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rowen Limited Plantation


    rubadub wrote: »
    do they still wipe out all your emails if you do not log on for a while? This is why I went off yahoo and hotmail. I snapped up gmail addresses for my family when it first came out and some only got around to using them a year or so ago.

    I see yahoo give 1TB of free storage. My gmail is finally filling up to its 15GB limit.

    Not that I'm aware.


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  • #31
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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