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Why would Verizon want to keep a minority stake in Yahoo? Seems useless to me.

• rvnx 5y ago
  Yahoo has large and growing customers (example: DuckDuckGo)
  • mrweasel 5y ago
    What is DuckDuckGo buying from Yahoo? I was under the impression that both search and ads has supplied by Microsoft.
    • fumar 5y ago
      Who does Microsoft partner with for ad monetization? Verizon Media
      • mohanmcgeek 5y ago
        But still how does that make DDG a Yahoo customer?
        • utopcell 5y ago
          DDG was a collection of perl scripts around Yahoo BOSS (Build You Own Search Service), which is now backed by Bing. Nowadays, DDG has vastly outgrown its original serving by adding their most crucial ingredient: Privacy FUD.
          • mrweasel 5y ago
            That still doesn't really answer the question of how DDG is a Yahoo customer. BOSS is dead, and replaced by an ad program, which DDG doesn't use.
            • utopcell 5y ago
              That's true, I was just explaining why one would think DDG is a Yahoo customer.
  • Black101 5y ago
    I thought that DDG was getting its data from Bing... but either way, Yahoo was getting its data from Microsoft.
• after_care 5y ago
  It’s called hedging your bet. Yeah, you’re 95% sure yahoo is useless, but if that 5% happens you’ll look like a complete idiot and be locked out.
• daveevad 5y ago
  There was some speculation on Blind that it's a technique to ensure the transaction completes. So, it's a hedge against obstacles during closing.