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The Rise And Fall Of Yahoo: The Infographic

27 points by rblion 16y ago

zitterbewegung 16y ago
The infographic mainly does subjective value judgements and no real data is presented? I was expecting something a little bit more substantial....
- rblion 16y ago
  It's really a historic overview told from the perspective of the ultimate band wagoner...a TechCrunch blogger.
alanh 16y ago
Factually incorrect: “In April 1999, Yahoo! acquired the company for $5.7 billion in stock.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com The infographic reports this as $5.7 million which would not be such a huge deal, really.
- benologist 16y ago
  Pretty sure this is one of those 'spam' infographics anyway, the goal isn't to be correct it's to generate links and traffic for focus.com, a Q&A site that must be feeling left out with all the fluff pieces/mentions Quora gets (and probably soon hipster, the latest company to invent forums). http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...
  - drgath 16y ago
    This isn't even an infographic. It's just a timeline.
    - skinnymuch 16y ago
      It doesn't stick too strongly to time. Around 1999/2000 they have a "other purchases" text spot. For acquired companies it includes Flickr and Delicious along with what seems to be companies acquired around the bubble and early decade. It would make more sense to separate out purchases done during the bubble with stuff like Flickr. It also doesn't mention Inktomi or Overture.
zandorg 16y ago
Nothing about Overture, nothing about shutting down Yahoo Auctions. Not a very good article.
rgrove 16y ago
It's pretty easy to make any company look terrible when you selectively list mostly bad things about its history interspersed with good things about its competitors.
- rblion 16y ago
  History is written by the winners and their blind (for the most part) followers.
name 16y ago
ok an other foolish article from TC just for the heck of writing about Y!.

27 points by rblion 16y ago

The infographic mainly does subjective value judgements and no real data is presented? I was expecting something a little bit more substantial....

rblion 16y ago
It's really a historic overview told from the perspective of the ultimate band wagoner...a TechCrunch blogger.

alanh 16y ago

Factually incorrect: “In April 1999, Yahoo! acquired the company for $5.7 billion in stock.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com The infographic reports this as $5.7 million which would not be such a huge deal, really.

benologist 16y ago
Pretty sure this is one of those 'spam' infographics anyway, the goal isn't to be correct it's to generate links and traffic for focus.com, a Q&A site that must be feeling left out with all the fluff pieces/mentions Quora gets (and probably soon hipster, the latest company to invent forums). http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...
- drgath 16y ago
  This isn't even an infographic. It's just a timeline.
  - skinnymuch 16y ago
    It doesn't stick too strongly to time. Around 1999/2000 they have a "other purchases" text spot. For acquired companies it includes Flickr and Delicious along with what seems to be companies acquired around the bubble and early decade. It would make more sense to separate out purchases done during the bubble with stuff like Flickr. It also doesn't mention Inktomi or Overture.

zandorg 16y ago

Nothing about Overture, nothing about shutting down Yahoo Auctions. Not a very good article.

rgrove 16y ago

It's pretty easy to make any company look terrible when you selectively list mostly bad things about its history interspersed with good things about its competitors.

rblion 16y ago
History is written by the winners and their blind (for the most part) followers.

name 16y ago

ok an other foolish article from TC just for the heck of writing about Y!.