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Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by neilk » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:13 PM UTC

Vespa was actually very cool at the time as a document-oriented search engine, occupying the same niche as Solr and elaborations of that like ElasticSearch. But I don't know if it's competitive today.

This blog post says it's "developed by Yahoo" which is I guess true. But it was originally an acquisition, largely developed by a team in Norway, and apparently most Vespa development still happens there.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by rgrove » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:13 PM UTC

slimsag wrote: post #16

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager…

Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy

It always has! This is one of Yahoo's best-kept secrets, sadly.

(I worked on Yahoo Search — and search.yahoo.com — from 2007 to 2010)

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by rmccue » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:14 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #10

Piaggio is not gonna be happy that someone has called their company Vespa.

“vespa” means wasp in Italian, and it seems unlikely that they’re in the same trademark categories.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by febeling » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:14 PM UTC

slimsag wrote: post #16

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager…

Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy

indeed. Shows again the milliseconds really count

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by Irishsteve » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:15 PM UTC

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager…

for comparative purposes snap do 4b a year and are a bit flat, same as Pinterest. Last 10k I saw from yahoo is 2016 where they also did 5b top line.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by tannhaeuser » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:18 PM UTC

ginko wrote: post #11

agloe_dreams wrote: post #6

What a weird name for a product. Even they need to tell you which Vespa they are. Like, when naming things...maybe not use a name that people use to define a category. (AKA: A Vespa is to Scooters as a PostIt is to sticky notes)

I'm surprized they haven't gotten a nasty letter from Piaggio yet.

Vespa is the Italian (and Latin) word for wasp, not sure Piaggio can claim ownership outside of the domain of commercial vehicles under idk EU or WTO rules.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by cfors » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:19 PM UTC

Can anybody speak to how Vespa compares to some other Vector Database solutions? Seems like there's so many options today

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:19 PM UTC

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager…

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Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by owlninja » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:24 PM UTC

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

It feels like their fantasy sports platforms are pretty popular.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 8:24 PM UTC

agloe_dreams wrote: post #6

What a weird name for a product. Even they need to tell you which Vespa they are. Like, when naming things...maybe not use a name that people use to define a category. (AKA: A Vespa is to Scooters as a PostIt is to sticky notes)

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