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Was Yahoo ever big outside of the US? For me it's always been some invisible, but persisting, corner of the Internet. Admittedly I've used some of the services
by distances 10y ago
Was Yahoo ever big outside of the US? For me it's always been some invisible, but persisting, corner of the Internet. Admittedly I've used some of the services they have acquired (like Flickr and RocketMail), but none of the core products I think.
Search was dominated by AltaVista up until Google, and for news and website index services I would have used local papers and link collections. I don't really even know what else was in their offering.
- spaghetti_taco 10y agoAltaVista straight to Google? You missed out on some great stuff! What about Webcrawler, Hotbot or Metacrawler?
- distances 10y agoI remember trying out HotBot, Lycos, Northern Light, and the Raging Search (which was apparently also from AltaVista). But I didn't really use any of them that much, it was straight to Google if I recall correctly. That was a while ago though and I don't have my browser history saved, so who knows exactly :)
- drdeadringer 10y agoHotbot was my favorite. I even had an email address with them. When they were bought out, I remember thinking "Damn, now I have to find a new search engine to use".
- soylentcola 10y agoSo many times at work, misspelling "hotbot.com" and typing "hotbat.com" which brought you to a porn site with some half-clothed woman suggestively holding a baseball bat on the splash page. Pretty sure it was just a generic porn site (never really looked into it) and the "bat" thing was just a thinly layered gag to make an excuse for taking advantage of the common typo.
- Scoundreller 10y agoHeh, I just checked out whitehouse.com (not .gov!), which now says (with no images): WhiteHouse.com Official Site Celebrating our 19th Anniversary (1997-2016) World's Most Famous Adult Site coming back Summer 2016
- refurb 10y agoWas Yahoo ever big outside of the US? Yahoo was, and still is, big outside the US. From my understanding Yahoo Japan is doing really well as is the company in other developing markets.
- astrange 10y agoYahoo Japan is a different company, I think owned by SoftBank. They run a lot of services that are covered by e.g. eBay, Yelp, Google Maps here. I think they're an ISP too.
- spriggan3 10y agoYahoo is still big in Europe, at least France. Their homepage is one of the most visited webpage.
- digikazi 10y agoApparently they're big in Japan as well.I remember reading a while ago that Yahoo is the dominant portal in Japan and scratching my head...
- wodenokoto 10y agoIt's a different company in Japan. They Yahoo you know has a minority stake in Yahoo KK that is the Yahoo people know in Japan. The cell phone provider, softbank has the majority share.
- xiaoma 10y agoYahoo is still dominant in Taiwan and has always been strong in Japan as well.