Better title: "Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals"
It's from the article, but what is a "content vertical"?
Like a category site. Like NBA news, or a site focusing on security articles or home renovation.
Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals
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#12Will fantasy football get cut soon?
Yahoo! Sports is one of the verticals that is staying. I'd assume that fantasy sports is under that umbrella.
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#13This might be the first good move Yahoo has made since Mayer took over.
I can't think of a better example of a company that needs to shed worthless baggage and focus on high value propositions.
And I am gobsmacked Yahoo has not at least made an attempt at a real social network. They have hundreds of millions of users, at the point they are in giving all their users an automatic account on Yahoo Social might be a dick move, but it's time start taking risks and see what unfolds.
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#14What about Yahoo Answers? I hate seeing their results show up in the top 3 when I do a Google search. They're always low quality and not useful.
Similar experience, the few times I have used it, sadly.
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#15What about Yahoo Answers? I hate seeing their results show up in the top 3 when I do a Google search. They're always low quality and not useful.
It's free content, and they can sell ads on it.
Personally, I'd love to own it.
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#16This might be the first good move Yahoo has made since Mayer took over. I can't think of a better example of a company that needs to shed worthless baggage and focus on high value propositions. And I am gobsmacked Yahoo has not at least made an attempt at a real social network. They have hundreds of millions of users, at the point they are in giving all their users an automatic account on Yahoo Social might be a dick…
That didn't work out so well for Google, and they were in a lot better position to make it work than Yahoo is.
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#17This might be the first good move Yahoo has made since Mayer took over. I can't think of a better example of a company that needs to shed worthless baggage and focus on high value propositions. And I am gobsmacked Yahoo has not at least made an attempt at a real social network. They have hundreds of millions of users, at the point they are in giving all their users an automatic account on Yahoo Social might be a dick…
That didn't work out so well for Google, and they were in a lot better position to make it work than Yahoo is.
I'm not saying I agree with that move from a moral standpoint, but I'd bet money that Yahoo has a better chance of making it work. The demographics are different, there were enough tech-savvy people who understood Google's business model well enough to realize that co-opting people into a social network was going to give Google a scary amount of information. Yahoo isn't the behemoth that Google is, and I'm not sure that their audience is made up of people who understand that business model intimately enough to see the dangers.
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#18What about Yahoo Answers? I hate seeing their results show up in the top 3 when I do a Google search. They're always low quality and not useful.
Fun fact: practically every assigned problem in undergrad chemistry, physics and math is solved on yahoo answers.
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#19why is this on hacker news? not trying to be an ass or anything. really. it's hardly a tech company, and this is apparently not affecting whatever tech side it still have. probably just execs trying to raise any number used to calculate stock prices this week and secure whatever fat bonus they will get by end of quarter.
pg->viaweb->yahoo->pg$$$->ycombinator->hackernews
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#20> David Pogue is one of a kind – the most gifted tech reviewer on the planet, and easily the most entertaining.
Wanted to LOL at this as the other time, i watched one of the 'life hacking' shows of this moron, and he demonstrated how to find out whether an egg is hard-boiled ... by spinning it...