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The most stupid decision was to stop their own search engine based on Hadoop (Yahoo run the largest Hadoop cluster ~ 2009). Nowadays Yahoo could run their own c
by frik 11y ago
The most stupid decision was to stop their own search engine based on Hadoop (Yahoo run the largest Hadoop cluster ~ 2009). Nowadays Yahoo could run their own cloud hosting platform, etc.
- toast0 11y agoStupider than deciding to shut it down and outsource to Bing was outsourcing and not shutting it down. (outsourcing to Microsoft was a poor decision as well: Microsoft did about as well for Y! as Y! did itself with less flexibility; but outsourcing to google again was nixed by regulators)
- mkagenius 11y agoSearch still is a significant source of revenue and growth for them. 1. http://adage.com/article/digital/yahoo-s-display-search-revenues-growing/298173/ http://adage.com/article/digital/yahoo-s-display-search-reve...