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You're right, but it goes beyond that. Yahoo used to be a titan. I was a regular user of Yahooligans back in the day. Yahoo (at one time) had been my go to sea

You're right, but it goes beyond that. Yahoo used to be a titan. I was a regular user of Yahooligans back in the day. Yahoo (at one time) had been my go to search engine. I can't say that it was ever my primary email account, but I used it. I used Yahoo Messenger. I was part of a community that centered around some Yahoo games. Yahoo used to be a titan that was a direct Google competitor in the realms of communication, search, news and entertainment. Sure, I can delete an account for any service belonging to any company(!) if I want. But when you use a service, there's an explicit level of trust that they'll protect your information to the best of their ability. We assume that we can use their services as our primary driver without worrying about MD5 hashes without salt. We assume that they'll take more security procedures than a student making a toy app testing boundaries in a 400-level course. Sure, we can delete our account, but this is an unnerving situation. It's not like Yahoo was thought to be some back alley operation where everyone nervously awaited news like this. Yahoo was a direct competitor and contender to some of the biggest digital companies on the Web. This level of incompetence is mind blowing. At least it is to me.

aidenn0 10y ago
Yahoo was my primary (as in only one not provided by my isp or school) e-mail address from when they bought Geocities until the early '00s. I've been disentangling as many services from them as possible over the past couple of years.
djsumdog 10y ago
This goes into the much bigger issues of there not being enough search engines. Back in the day if you couldn't find something, there was Lycos, Hotbot, AltaVista, MSN .. each had their own indexes (or they purchased access to a few major indexes). Later we saw people ditch their indexes and just using a few big players. Now we have Google, Yandex ..and...Bing? DuckDuckGo uses a combination of Yandex and others, Microsoft has been found parsing Google to build their index ... I want more options, but the search space barrier to entry is very high.

aidenn0 10y ago

Yahoo was my primary (as in only one not provided by my isp or school) e-mail address from when they bought Geocities until the early '00s. I've been disentangling as many services from them as possible over the past couple of years.

djsumdog 10y ago

This goes into the much bigger issues of there not being enough search engines. Back in the day if you couldn't find something, there was Lycos, Hotbot, AltaVista, MSN .. each had their own indexes (or they purchased access to a few major indexes). Later we saw people ditch their indexes and just using a few big players. Now we have Google, Yandex ..and...Bing? DuckDuckGo uses a combination of Yandex and others, Microsoft has been found parsing Google to build their index ... I want more options, but the search space barrier to entry is very high.