How long will yahoo finance stay up?
Yahoo Groups is closing down
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#12How long will yahoo finance stay up?
the last Yahoo service I use
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#13I spent a good amount of my teenage using Yahoo services - Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups, Geocities, Yahoo Mail and of course Yahoo search. It's really sad to see them fade into oblivion. I wonder what will happen to Google and Facebook in the next twenty years.
Personally, I think this will happen to Google. They seem to have lost their way.
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#14Just got the email: Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members, We launched Yahoo Groups 20 years ago to connect people around their shared interests. We helped our users navigate new towns, keep in touch with college friends, learn new skills, and most importantly, build connections they may have lost or never had in the first place. While we could not have been more proud of what we accomplished together, we are reach…
> Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years.
Let's not forget yahoo brought this entirely on themselves by breaking standard email handling.
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/J-IsfA0Lb-6T_NeMD...
From that day forward all yahoo addresses became second class citizens on every email list and got either banned or had special rewrite rules applied only to them. And every mailing list hosted on yahoo groups had broken email headers. Despite the damage, they inexplicably held onto this change and got slowly filtered out of email relevance. That kickstarted the migration off yahoo email & groups.
If they hadn't done this, all the long-lived email lists would've kept happily chugging along.
Certainly goes into the Top 10 Dumb Decisions of Internet History.
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#15Yahoo is now just a brand in search of a purpose.
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#16Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201014053226/https://uk.help.y...
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#17Yahoo Directory is gone. Yahoo Search is gone. Alibaba got away. Now Yahoo Groups is going. The Yahoo home page looks like a low end news scraper site, like Newsmax. It's now owned by Verizon, which feels they should have some presence in "content". Unclear if Yahoo is profitable; Verizon doesn't break out the numbers of Yahoo vs their other sites. AOL is in a similar position. There are enough legacy customers to ju…
The way they leveled down the whole yahoo ecosystem is amazing. It almost seems they've done this deliberately.
I'm now waiting for the mess that will be caused by the shut down of yahoo mail and the inability to access/regain the accounts on different platforms associated to these mail addresses.
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#18The writing's been on the wall for a while: this was first announced last year, then postponed, and the online UI was already shut down in February 2020. Completely boneheaded move in that it removes the last reason many people like myself would ever even stumble into a Yahoo site, but then again, Yahoo Groups's SEO visibility is also near-zero these days, and I figure the beancounters at Yahoo computed that this is…
Who works at Yahoo nowadays? Do they still have offices in Sunnyvale? Everything seems on auto-pilot except for some fantasy sports opinion writers.
Yahoo isn’t a company anymore it’s a brand. It’s a death walk to insolvency at this point. They’ll extract whatever value they can before killing it.
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#19> Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Over that same period, we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as customers seek out premium, trustworthy content. Out of interest does anyone know what they consider their premium, trustworthy content?
Yahoo Finance is just about the last top tier Yahoo service standing, and it has plenty of competition.