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Great job, this is a fun concept that is well executed. I was going to add Geocities, but I was surprised to find out that it is still available in Japan. Anyo
by arscan 9y ago
Great job, this is a fun concept that is well executed.
I was going to add Geocities, but I was surprised to find out that it is still available in Japan. Anyone have insight as to why Yahoo kept it alive in that market?
- rangibaby 9y agoYahoo Japan is probably the only Yahoo anyone (willingly) uses. E.g. Yahoo! Auctions is the equivalent of eBay here.
- toast0 9y agoYahoo! Japan was a joint partnership of Yahoo! and SoftBank. From what I could tell while working at Yahoo!, Yahoo Japan was able to use whatever software they wanted from Y!, but whatever they developed wasn't accessibly by the rest of Y! So, they had their own installation of geocities, and didn't need to take it down. Yahoo auctions is also big in Japan, but was killed everywhere else. (Edit: change was to is)
- hkmurakami 9y agoYahoo Auctions in Japan is still the market leader today! :P
- toast0 9y agoSorry, I've edited, I left Y! a while ago, and didn't follow the japanese auction market, so I wasn't sure if it was still the leader.
- hkmurakami 9y agoI think Mercari has a legit chance of catching them, but YA is definitely the leader. You know you've made it when you get a Truncation nickname in Japan (sort of like the Hollywood couples names like bennifer) "yafuoku"