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

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Post by fzliu »

I was at Yahoo almost a decade ago, when vector search within Vespa was first being rolled out in production use cases. It was already serving similarity search requests for Flickr back then.

Even though I'm with Zilliz/Milvus now, I wholeheartedly support and recommend folks check out and try Vespa. Congrats to the Vespa team!

EDIT: For folks on Twitter, you should follow Jo (https://twitter.com/jobergum) from Vespa if you aren't already. Great combo of technical content, hot takes, and vector database memes!

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

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Post by parthdesai »

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…

>When was the last time you changed your mail id?

I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.

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

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Post by gardenhedge »

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

search results page isn't even responsive. Because I am using vertical tabs I need to scroll sideways..

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

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Post by jkb79 »

fzliu wrote: post #41

I was at Yahoo almost a decade ago, when vector search within Vespa was first being rolled out in production use cases. It was already serving similarity search requests for Flickr back then. Even though I'm with Zilliz/Milvus now, I wholeheartedly support and recommend folks check out and try Vespa. Congrats to the Vespa team! EDIT: For folks on Twitter, you should follow Jo ( https://twitter.com/jobergum ) from Ves…

Thank you for the shout-out Frank!

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

#47

Post by Tommah »

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…

> When was the last time you changed your mail id?

In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.

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

#48

Post by jkb79 »

autoexec wrote: post #39
rmccue wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Wasps are a nuisance known for causing pain and property destruction. "vespa" as a name for a product always seemed strange to me. At least the scooters were vaguely waspish looking and buzzed around town. What's yahoo's excuse?

Vespa was the internal code name for the project going back to 2005ish, vertical search platform.

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

#49

Post by jollofricepeas »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #35
rmccue wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Try telling that to Apple.

Little known fact…

It is believed that Apple paid the Beatles a little over $500 million for Apple Corp trademark rights so they could market “Apple Music”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

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

#50

Post by throwaway280383 »

parthdesai wrote: post #44
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…

>When was the last time you changed your mail id? I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.

Most growth currently is international. Remember, gmail doesn't work in China :)
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