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Yes, of course it has some teardown value. Billions in Ali Baba stock if nothing else. But that's not what you're suggesting - doubling down by doing more of w
by EdHominem 10y ago
Yes, of course it has some teardown value. Billions in Ali Baba stock if nothing else.
But that's not what you're suggesting - doubling down by doing more of what they've been doing. This assumes that what they're doing has some useful foundation you can find and build on.
There are essentially zero Yahoo users, especially of any service that's remotely monetizable. People who use Yahoo are people whose ISP set it as their default homepage ten years ago.
You can hear the fail in their words. They're talking about retaining users, not offering value. They still want to be a portal (ie the base of every action you take), something users didn't want when it was new.
That's the business legacy you'd have to reverse before you stop producing negative-value, let alone actually produce something that may actually be valuable.
- CPLX 10y ago> Billions in Ali Baba stock if nothing else. My understanding is that's the one thing that is not up for sale these days, and that all relevant discussions are regarding the spinoff of their core web businesses.
- ergothus 10y agoslight variation: I was talking about Yahoo ABSENT the profitable sub-groups. The part that apparently has negative value. I fail to believe that Yahoo, minus Ali Baba and Fantasy sports and similar bits, is actively NEGATIVE value. It might be poorly run and have the poor actions you're talking about. (okay, it DOES have the negatives you mention). That doesn't mean what's there "should just die" - it's a business opportunity to take that and use it profitably.
- bzbarsky 10y agoA fair number of people use Yahoo mail and Yahoo search. It's not a majority of the market by any means, but it's still tens to hundreds of millions of users all told.
- drdeca 10y agoThey also own tumblr iirc. I don't know if tumblr is profitable, but it has many users. edit: whoops this was already mentioned a number of times in other comments.
- lesdeuxmagots 10y agoYahoo has over 1B MAUs. One. Billion. The vast majority of those don't even touch the homepage.
- matwood 10y agoYep. I regularly use http://finance.yahoo.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/ and http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/ http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/ when in season. The finance site is one of the better ones. Google has not updated theirs in so long I'm surprised they have not just turned it off.
- ytjohn 10y agoI don't know how monetizable it is, but yahoo groups is still very actively used. It's amazing the number of times I'm trying to find information about a bit of software or hardware, and find myself landing on a yahoo groups archive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups#Site_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups#Site_statistics http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-burrus/yahoo-groups_b_1611741.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-burrus/yahoo-groups_b_1...