Just wondering, how many people use Yahoo? It's supposed to be getting more popular but at least with my peers I don't see that trend. Is it popular outside of the USA?
In the USA my girlfriend (in her mid 30's) and most of her friends use Yahoo.
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#22Just wondering, how many people use Yahoo? It's supposed to be getting more popular but at least with my peers I don't see that trend. Is it popular outside of the USA?
I would never have considered Yahoo in the past, but recently Google has been on a crusade to make their products worthless to me so I've been looking around to see what else is out there. I've settled on Bing maps, though OSM is what I'd like to end up using eventually. I suspect at least a few other people are doing the same, and some of them might be settling on Yahoo products.
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I'm guessing it's popular amongst people who install software that in turn installs a yahoo search toolbar on them that they cannot figure out how to turn off/don't bother to.
Or, you know, maybe people actually use a lot of their sites (fantasy sports, email, flickr, finance, entertainment news).
Yup I point that out a few comments down as far as overall traffic in comparison to Google. I'm referring only to search traffic here.
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#24Just wondering, how many people use Yahoo? It's supposed to be getting more popular but at least with my peers I don't see that trend. Is it popular outside of the USA?
Tumblr & Flickr are both pretty popular with most people I know.
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#25The S&P 500 index was at around 1,300 at the beginning of 2008. It's at around 1,700 today -- actually, a record high. Of course, it reached as low as 700 to 800 in March 2009.
Quantitative easing is great... Mugabenomics forever!
"Priceline.com became the first company listed in the S&P 500 to trade at $1,000 in the index’s 56-year history."
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/09/18/on-a-day-of-record...
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#26It should be noted that Yahoo owns 20% of Alibaba. With Alibaba announcing its IPO plans earlier this year, yahoo's stake is worth between $13B to $18B. Most of the share price increase is because of this. Not because Yahoo's core business has gotten better. Yahoo is worth $31B today. So almost 1/3 to 1/2 of Yahoo's valuation is its stake in Alibaba. In 2008, nobody knew how big Alibaba would get.
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Or, you know, maybe people actually use a lot of their sites (fantasy sports, email, flickr, finance, entertainment news).
Yup I point that out a few comments down as far as overall traffic in comparison to Google. I'm referring only to search traffic here.
Ah, gotcha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
Apparently Yahoo is the "2nd largest search directory on the web by query volume, at 6.42%, after its competitor Google at 85.35% and before Baidu at 3.67%".
- First of all, wow, what a landslide! - Secondly, Yahoo still has a pretty big slice of that pie relative to everyone else. - Super surprising that Google owns 85% of the search market, yet is still behind Yahoo on traffic :/
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#28Just wondering, how many people use Yahoo? It's supposed to be getting more popular but at least with my peers I don't see that trend. Is it popular outside of the USA?
They were kind of the definitive site for general information in the 90s, so many millions of people who started using the internet in the 90s got used to going there for news, sports, finance, weather, and some of their other verticals, as well as things like email. A lot of those people haven't had any good reason to switch to anything else, so that's what they use. This tracks with the way people choose offline br…
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#29Just wondering, how many people use Yahoo? It's supposed to be getting more popular but at least with my peers I don't see that trend. Is it popular outside of the USA?
Yahoo had a lively and somewhat fun game community long before Zynga showed up. It probably still does. I used to play Literati with friends.
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#30bought yhoo at 26 usd, set a limit at 31, excellent!
i really believe in what melissa meyer's doing for the company, though i dont see them in the same vein as google, more so an online media company, not in terms of a true innovator which is fine because if you get that right, there's plenty of money to be made, buy!