Is Yahoo dead?

I am 43 years old. Interesting point you make. I agree that most of the homepage is celebrity garbage.

I still use the finance.yahoo.com page because it's easy to use to look at stock charts and see some current news per each company. I also use sports.yahoo.com to look up college football scores, rankings, conference standing etc. I have just found these two pages to be more user friendly than their counterparts at espn, cnbc, which are less intuitive and more ad-intensive.

I have two yahoo email addresses I check once a week that I have had since the 1990s. I just don't feel good about going to gmail and mostly use my work email. I do get frustrated with yahoo's attempts to put lipstick on their pig of an email program. It seems like it is becoming more of a hassle to use. I just want to send basic text emails and maybe include an attachment from time to time but they want to dress it up with pretty backgrounds and make it harder to log out.

I use Yahoo for Fantasy football and it's not bad at all. The App on Android is easy to use and not at all like the awful yahoo.com main page.

Yeah, the homepage is pure crraaaaappppp.

I do have an email address that Ive had for over a dozen years and if not for that I'd never use their site.

I like yahoo. But yes the home page is frustrating with their "news" stories and sources. If I could block certain publications like "huffington post", "TMZ", "Yahoo XXX" and "live science". It would be much better.

Yahoo is quite popular outside of the States.

Verizon FIOS utilizes Yahoo for their email.

And Yahoo pulls in over $4.5 Billion in revenue a year.

Shut it down?

Shut it down, imo. I've been dealing, for the last 5 weeks, with a web problem, where contact forms aren't coming thru to my site if the user has entered a Yahoo email address (also AOL, and I think hotmail). It's a function of the DMARC policy, Yahoo's use of that, and how gmail (where my form is sent to) is handling that. There's actually no real resolution that actually works. F*** Yahoo.

Yahoo's e-mail servers LOVE to drop e-mail. We've run into this time and time again. I usually suggest gmail, their spam detection seems much better.

Yahoo is the premier site for fantasy sports. They're not going anywhere.

And they love to send it and other bad things too. Surprised all of their servers aren't blacklisted.

Ole Timer wrote:

Yahoo's e-mail servers LOVE to drop e-mail. We've run into this time and time again. I usually suggest gmail, their spam detection seems much better.

yahoo hasn't been about yahoo in years. tumblr and flikr are it's biggest consumer products, and its branded content portals generate an insane number of page views, crushing niche companies like SI and WSJ. i think you'll continue to see them gobble up more B2B software in online advertising and rich media.

if you get 200 million unique visitors a day across your platform, you keep the lights on.

I googled it.

Yes.

I think that their best bet was a stake in Ali Baba that became worth more than $10 billion. Their email system gets worse every time they update it, though if you look for it you can still find an older version that is not quite as bad, though I couldn't email myself something the other day for work.

Their idea of a TMZ style homepage with a lot of ads and junk news is not exactly doing it. I was also very much not in favor of their bringing in the gmail style of scanning your email to advertise to you to their email system.

This. 100 times over.

I am 36 but I still have a Yahoo! email address that I use for things like online purchases, logins, etc. I don't have it synced to my phone, but probably check it like once a week. I just kept it as something that would outlast my work email addresses, etc. I figured it would always be there. I actually opened it up before Gmail was ubiquitous.

I had a Gmail address for a while, but when Google started getting all weird about trying to link Gmail to Google+ and search histories and everything, I just took it down. I didn't like how it started logging me into YouTube automatically and forcing me into Google+. I just found that I didn't need the account and deleted it.

I agree 100% about Yahoo! trying to make their email pointlessly pretty when it was simple and functional before. For a while I just kept switching back to "classic view" but that is no longer an option. I can't complain too much since I only look at it once a week, but still.

Someone may buy them but they're not going away,

I made a lot of money from Yahoo stock in the last few years. If their stock continues to tank, I expect someone -- most likely Alibaba -- to buy the company.

What IS their business model? Is it a search site? A news site? Advertising company? As others have said, the homepage is complete crap with the "entertainment" style news...but here is a newsflash..they realize that is what drives the traffic. A story about the Kartrashians or Taylor Swift is going to get more clicks than one anout the upcoming fed rate hike. Sorry. They actually have some decent stuff from Business Insider but mostly its just retread stories and links from other sites.

I read the article where someone said that if their CEO wasnt pregnant with twins, she would probably get axed within 6 months due to the company not performing under her watch. It was an interesting read. You could probably google it and find it.

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

What IS their business model? Is it a search site? A news site? Advertising company? As others have said, the homepage is complete crap with the "entertainment" style news...but here is a newsflash..they realize that is what drives the traffic. A story about the Kartrashians or Taylor Swift is going to get more clicks than one anout the upcoming fed rate hike. Sorry. They actually have some decent stuff from Business Insider but mostly its just retread stories and links from other sites.

I read the article where someone said that if their CEO wasnt pregnant with twins, she would probably get axed within 6 months due to the company not performing under her watch. It was an interesting read. You could probably google it and find it.

I read that article. I'm not sure that Yahoo would be performing under anyone's watch. My interest in Yahoo was all about its stake in Alibaba. Once that was over, I was gone.

Larry Liberal wrote:

Yahoo was once a big player -- probably only remember this if you're 40+ years old.

I'm 32 and remember Yahoo being a big player. So you can probably drop that down to 30+. At the time I would put Yahoo and Hotmail on the same level but now I would put Hotmail higher. I still use both emails but they are secondary addresses. Gmail is my main address now. The main reason is that Gmail is accessible from work while Yahoo and Hotmail are not. This goes for all companies I have worked for in the past 10 years.