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I honestly can't remember the last time I even used Yahoo. Am I alone in this or is this common ?
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mail yes (postfx + horde), search = google.
Pfff, real men do their own crawling.
Yahoo! has lost its reputation within geek circles. Google have not only put out really great products, they also go to great lengths to boast about their vastly superior technologies (BigTable, MapReduce), which gets them a lot of (well-deserved) geek love. Then there are Android and Chrome (with V8), both of which are pretty exciting to hackers. Also, Summer of Code, Code Jam etc. get Google a lot of street cred. S…
Yahoo pump out loads of tech stuff all the time - YUI, Hadoop, YSlow, YUI Compressor are all hugely respected and popular tools. They've write articles and published research that are almost definitive references for things like web site optimization. They have a boat load of web service APIs that are used all over the place and some of them are very innovative. It's worth just browsing around http://developer.yahoo.com/ to see all the stuff they have going.
(No, I don't work for Yahoo or have any association.)
Maybe I'm a little to obsessive with the original source thing... I was going to complain again about the link being nytimes.com instead of the original from gigaom.com (From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." ) But then this really leapt out at me: "Yahoo News is the No. 1 news and information site in the country, wi…
Yahoo has been my homepage since '96. I'm oldschool.
I honestly can't remember the last time I even used Yahoo. Am I alone in this or is this common ?
I use Yahoo finance many times daily, much more often than Google finance or other sites. Yahoo offers real-time update of broad market indices and delayed update of my favorite stocks on their main page, along with headlines and videos of the top business stories. It's a nice information packaging job. Of course my broker supplies all that data and more, but they don't understand the complexities of corporate firewa…
I honestly can't remember the last time I even used Yahoo. Am I alone in this or is this common ?
I honestly can't remember the last time I even used Yahoo. Am I alone in this or is this common ?
I stopped yahooing after I was signed up to hotjobs through a newspaper and there was no interface for unsubcribing to their spam. So I canceled yahoo whole hog and haven't missed it.
Yahoo! has lost its reputation within geek circles. Google have not only put out really great products, they also go to great lengths to boast about their vastly superior technologies (BigTable, MapReduce), which gets them a lot of (well-deserved) geek love. Then there are Android and Chrome (with V8), both of which are pretty exciting to hackers. Also, Summer of Code, Code Jam etc. get Google a lot of street cred. S…
I agree with you about the "not exciting" part, but I disagree about their reputation in geek circles - at least "real" geek circles and not just tech digerati that are obsessed only with what is changing and new and what drives traffic to their blog sites. Yahoo pump out loads of tech stuff all the time - YUI, Hadoop, YSlow, YUI Compressor are all hugely respected and popular tools. They've write articles and publis…
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Pfff, real men do their own crawling.
well, I toyed around with writing my own search engine (have a pretty good proof of concept) but in the end the bandwidth costs would have been prohibitive... so there :)