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Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are sur

by dfar1 11y ago

Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this. Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at everything, because right now you can't do one thing well. Stop with the ads that take over the whole screen. Stop copying and pasting or embedding content from other sites Stop using these crazy layouts that change all the time. It's impossible to find what you are looking for and it takes forever to load. Promote content that matters. Assume your audience is intelligent Be creative Be innovative

muglug 11y ago
Ok, but you've destroyed their business model. How do they generate revenue from webmail now? Millions rely on the yahoo webmail interface, and every request that server fields subtracts from the company's bottom line.
- funkyy 11y ago
  They can advertise, but ad just above the first message drives miss-clicks. Its tricky way to drive CTR up.
brandon272 11y ago
I would love to use Yahoo! as a "homepage" and get my news from there, if not only to show support for this company because the Yahoo! brand holds a place in my heart. ... But the duplicitous insertion of "sponsored" content that is intended to look like news among the legitimate news is too much for me to handle. Trying to consume news requires enough focus, nevermind having to scan each news story on their homepage to determine if it's a form of actual journalism or someone trying to sell me something. A major problem with Yahoo! is the lack of compelling reason to even visit their properties. Everything is half-baked.
ljk 11y ago
I'd imagine most of yahoo's users are not as tech-savvy to know how to disable ads, and since so many people use it it's probably full of these "common-denominator" stuff that we're not used to
- jonursenbach 11y ago
  > "common-denominator" Also known as normal people.
  - ljk 11y ago
    haha touche
pnathan 11y ago
Drucker had this idea of a "Business X Ray". Yahoo needs to apply that concept to the business: the most profitable 20% lines of business today and tomorrow need to survive: the other need to be axed; the money flowing into those 80% can be now redirected towards the profitable few. What Yahoo has is breadth of platform: leveraging that can be done, but it will involve pay-to-play for consumers of the platform, something that is always taken badly by the freeloaders. It's time for some hard decisions that won't sit well with ICs.
- PhilWright 11y ago
  Ah, the classic 80/20 rule. 80% of the revenue comes from just 20% of your products. So your tempted to kill the 80% and become much more efficient. But the problem is that you can now apply the same rule to the remaining business. Do you keep reapplying until you only have a single product left?
WalterBright 11y ago
Yahoo's finance page is very good, better than anyone else's. With one click URL I can get quotes on all the stocks I'm interested in, with a thumbnail graph, and links to charts, news, etc. Nobody else is even close.
- NotSammyHagar 11y ago
  google finance has all that.
  - WalterBright 11y ago
    I beg to differ. 1. Google's is cookie based, meaning I can have only one portfolio. 2. Google doesn't have the thumbnail chart of the day's performance. 3. Google doesn't have the useful links. Yahoo's is URL based, for example, here's a MSFT/AMZN/GOOG portfolio: https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MSFT,GOOG,AMZN/view/v1 https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MSFT,GOOG,AMZN/view/v1 See for yourself!
- rchaud 11y ago
  Not just that, but Yahoo Finance's data download capabilities were a godsend for students like me in the late 2000s. No sign-up bullshit, they just let casual web users download enormous stock price data sets in CSV format. Very useful for my finance classes or econometrics term papers. I was fortunate to have access to a Bloomberg terminal at my school, but Yahoo Finance's efficient combination of displaying key metrics, historical prices and company-related newsires all on one site, navigable from my bedroom, was immeasurably valuable as well.

by dfar1 11y ago

muglug 11y ago

Ok, but you've destroyed their business model. How do they generate revenue from webmail now? Millions rely on the yahoo webmail interface, and every request that server fields subtracts from the company's bottom line.

funkyy 11y ago
They can advertise, but ad just above the first message drives miss-clicks. Its tricky way to drive CTR up.

brandon272 11y ago

I would love to use Yahoo! as a "homepage" and get my news from there, if not only to show support for this company because the Yahoo! brand holds a place in my heart. ... But the duplicitous insertion of "sponsored" content that is intended to look like news among the legitimate news is too much for me to handle. Trying to consume news requires enough focus, nevermind having to scan each news story on their homepage to determine if it's a form of actual journalism or someone trying to sell me something. A major problem with Yahoo! is the lack of compelling reason to even visit their properties. Everything is half-baked.

ljk 11y ago

I'd imagine most of yahoo's users are not as tech-savvy to know how to disable ads, and since so many people use it it's probably full of these "common-denominator" stuff that we're not used to

jonursenbach 11y ago
> "common-denominator" Also known as normal people.
- ljk 11y ago
  haha touche

pnathan 11y ago

Drucker had this idea of a "Business X Ray". Yahoo needs to apply that concept to the business: the most profitable 20% lines of business today and tomorrow need to survive: the other need to be axed; the money flowing into those 80% can be now redirected towards the profitable few. What Yahoo has is breadth of platform: leveraging that can be done, but it will involve pay-to-play for consumers of the platform, something that is always taken badly by the freeloaders. It's time for some hard decisions that won't sit well with ICs.

PhilWright 11y ago
Ah, the classic 80/20 rule. 80% of the revenue comes from just 20% of your products. So your tempted to kill the 80% and become much more efficient. But the problem is that you can now apply the same rule to the remaining business. Do you keep reapplying until you only have a single product left?

WalterBright 11y ago

Yahoo's finance page is very good, better than anyone else's. With one click URL I can get quotes on all the stocks I'm interested in, with a thumbnail graph, and links to charts, news, etc. Nobody else is even close.

NotSammyHagar 11y ago
google finance has all that.
- WalterBright 11y ago
  I beg to differ. 1. Google's is cookie based, meaning I can have only one portfolio. 2. Google doesn't have the thumbnail chart of the day's performance. 3. Google doesn't have the useful links. Yahoo's is URL based, for example, here's a MSFT/AMZN/GOOG portfolio: https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MSFT,GOOG,AMZN/view/v1 https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MSFT,GOOG,AMZN/view/v1 See for yourself!
rchaud 11y ago
Not just that, but Yahoo Finance's data download capabilities were a godsend for students like me in the late 2000s. No sign-up bullshit, they just let casual web users download enormous stock price data sets in CSV format. Very useful for my finance classes or econometrics term papers. I was fortunate to have access to a Bloomberg terminal at my school, but Yahoo Finance's efficient combination of displaying key metrics, historical prices and company-related newsires all on one site, navigable from my bedroom, was immeasurably valuable as well.