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"Yahoo"... The brand is the problem. It sounds like a good name for a personal website in 1998 (with 85 gifs and a turquoise background).

• RankingMember 10y ago
  With the right products, I'm of the opinion that you can name your company just about anything and be successful. I mean is Google's name any better if you don't keep their products in mind? Let's also not forget about GoDaddy, which for a time was successful with that name and hobbles along (operating at a loss) even today.
  • mikeash 10y ago
    Indeed, if the roles were somehow reversed and Yahoo! was the juggernaut and Google was dying, people would no doubt be saying the same stuff.
  • antoineMoPa 10y ago
    I don't think there is a major problem with Yahoo products. I tried Yahoo mail yesterday and the signup process was nice. It looks like a viable alternative to gmail. Google is a nicer name, it comes from googol which gives it some math meaning beyond the sound. Yahoo is only an onomatopoeia that sounds dumb to me (I am not a native English speaker though). Also, if you look in the dictionnary (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yahoo http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yahoo): yahoo: a rude, loud, unpleasant person, especially one who has little education