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The intersection between Yahoo's demographic and users on this site is the empty set. But they're still #5 globally, and Yahoo Japan is #16 globally, if you lo

The intersection between Yahoo's demographic and users on this site is the empty set. But they're still #5 globally, and Yahoo Japan is #16 globally, if you look at Alexa. That's a LOT of users, and showing ads to all of those users is easily worth billions of dollars a year.

mooreds 11y ago
Hey, not totally empty! I still use yahoogroups (for some lists I help with) and yahoo mail (haven't bothered to move, have a decade's worth of email). I also use their search engine occasionally (and Bing's)--just trying to keep search from being a monoculture.
- syntheticnature 11y ago
  As someone else who uses Yahoogroups for a few things, I've been wondering how it's holding on (and when I might need to jump ship). It's got a massive userbase, but I'm not sure of active usage, and I also wonder if it would have been canned were it not for things like Freecycle making exclusive use of it. It certainly has an abandonware (more likely understaffedware) feel to it.
  - ghaff 11y ago
    I suspect that most people who have been on the Internet for a certain length of time have a Yahoo email address. I personally used to use mine for ecommerce so my main address didn't get polluted by the weekly sales emails. Frankly I don't really bother any longer because Gmail tabs are good enough at filtering out the chaff. Anecdotally, among people I know (many of whom are not in tech), I see very few personal Yahoo email addresses. I do still use Yahoogroups for one organization I belong to and that's just because it's what existed at the time and there's been no reason to move off of it. I'm also a Flickr Pro member and would be sad to see Flickr go away--but that's more because it's a good source of Creative Commons photos for presentations etc. than because I really care that much for my own pics; I could move to someone like Smugmug relatively easily.

mooreds 11y ago

Hey, not totally empty! I still use yahoogroups (for some lists I help with) and yahoo mail (haven't bothered to move, have a decade's worth of email). I also use their search engine occasionally (and Bing's)--just trying to keep search from being a monoculture.

syntheticnature 11y ago
As someone else who uses Yahoogroups for a few things, I've been wondering how it's holding on (and when I might need to jump ship). It's got a massive userbase, but I'm not sure of active usage, and I also wonder if it would have been canned were it not for things like Freecycle making exclusive use of it. It certainly has an abandonware (more likely understaffedware) feel to it.
- ghaff 11y ago
  I suspect that most people who have been on the Internet for a certain length of time have a Yahoo email address. I personally used to use mine for ecommerce so my main address didn't get polluted by the weekly sales emails. Frankly I don't really bother any longer because Gmail tabs are good enough at filtering out the chaff. Anecdotally, among people I know (many of whom are not in tech), I see very few personal Yahoo email addresses. I do still use Yahoogroups for one organization I belong to and that's just because it's what existed at the time and there's been no reason to move off of it. I'm also a Flickr Pro member and would be sad to see Flickr go away--but that's more because it's a good source of Creative Commons photos for presentations etc. than because I really care that much for my own pics; I could move to someone like Smugmug relatively easily.