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

Post by throwaway280383 » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 7:12 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #127

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14

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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? 19 years ago, the minute gmail offered a better alternative to Yahoo!

Post by bayesian_limit » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC

dathinab wrote: post #31

neilk wrote: post #21

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.

> don't know if it's competitive today very, it's outcompeting most vector databases on features and maturity when it comes to vector search while having very powerful and flexible and proven text search too The tricky part is, it's more a platform to build complex search systems with then "just" a vector database. So if a found a company today which focus is to create clever multi phase search pipelines and train (e…