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Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Post by dfar1 »

Dear Yahoo,

Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page.

Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this.

Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at everything, because right now you can't do one thing well. Stop with the ads that take over the whole screen. Stop copying and pasting or embedding content from other sites Stop using these crazy layouts that change all the time. It's impossible to find what you are looking for and it takes forever to load.

Promote content that matters. Assume your audience is intelligent Be creative Be innovative

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Post by profeta »

metaphorm wrote: post #5
profeta wrote: post #2

bloomberg is limiting it's articles to 140 chars now?

I had to check. 562. It would all fit in 5 tweets.

details, details. :D

but, if you take out the part that is completely irrelevant about how they reported something that did not happen about yahoo selling itself, then it is probably less than 140.

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Post by muglug »

dfar1 wrote: post #3

Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this. Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at eve…

Ok, but you've destroyed their business model.

How do they generate revenue from webmail now? Millions rely on the yahoo webmail interface, and every request that server fields subtracts from the company's bottom line.

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Post by brandon272 »

dfar1 wrote: post #3

Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this. Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at eve…

I would love to use Yahoo! as a "homepage" and get my news from there, if not only to show support for this company because the Yahoo! brand holds a place in my heart.

... But the duplicitous insertion of "sponsored" content that is intended to look like news among the legitimate news is too much for me to handle. Trying to consume news requires enough focus, nevermind having to scan each news story on their homepage to determine if it's a form of actual journalism or someone trying to sell me something.

A major problem with Yahoo! is the lack of compelling reason to even visit their properties. Everything is half-baked.

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Post by ljk »

dfar1 wrote: post #3

Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this. Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at eve…

I'd imagine most of yahoo's users are not as tech-savvy to know how to disable ads, and since so many people use it it's probably full of these "common-denominator" stuff that we're not used to
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