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>> "By some estimates, the core business of Yahoo has a negative market value..." I dislike those estimates. Yahoo is the Nth highest-traffic site in the Engli
by avn2109 11y ago
>> "By some estimates, the core business of Yahoo has a negative market value..."
I dislike those estimates. Yahoo is the Nth highest-traffic site in the English speaking world, where N is probably < 100. It strains credulity to imagine that a site with that much traction truly has negative value.
Edit: [0] claims that Yahoo is the 6th most popular site on the web.
[0] http://www.alexa.com/topsites http://www.alexa.com/topsites
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- dragonwriter 11y ago> Yahoo is the Nth highest-traffic site in the English speaking world, where N is probably > 100. That's true of most sites in the English speaking world. If you remove the fuzziness of "probably", its true of all but 100. > It strains credulity to imagine that a site with that much traction truly has negative value. That only makes a little bit of sense if you flip the > to be a <. But even then, traffic is a cost driver; its only worth something if you have an effective way of monetize it. "We lose money on every transaction, but make up for it in volume" is as much of a fallacy with web sites where the transactions are "visits" as it is for any other type of interaction.