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Yahoo employee. AMA

by oaththrowaway 5y ago

Yahoo employee. AMA

the_snooze 5y ago
How is babby formed?
WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
Who will be hosting verizon.net email accounts, held by Frontier customers?
- oaththrowaway 5y ago
  AFAIK, those are still managed by Verizon
  - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
    They are managed by AOL now. Access is thru mail.aol.com. Will they return to Verizon?
    - oaththrowaway 5y ago
      That's interesting. As far as I understood AOL mail was handled by Yahoo at this point.
      - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
        I haven't seen any indication that Yahoo handles AOL mail but I don't see internal stuff. The setup page for ext access to verizon.net/AOL accounts has a verizon domain for SMTP & POP and an AOL domain for IMAP. eg: pop.verizon.net smtp.verizon.net imap.aol.com ref: https://help.aol.com/articles/how-do-i-set-up-other-email-applications-to-send-and-receive-my-verizon-net-mail https://help.aol.com/articles/how-do-i-set-up-other-email-ap... Hopefully this indicates that control over all verizon.net email accounts will fully revert to Verizon. Well, more like a blind wish. AOL mail management has been a little onerous - like mandating quarterly login to the webmail portal, else get locked out of POP access.
        Macha 5y ago
        My understanding is similar to oaththrowaway, these are all internally handled by the same backend systems.
- ciabattabread 5y ago
  My parents have an old Verizon DSL account, and their email got moved to yahoo, but the address still has verizon.net
ridaj 5y ago
What have been the great successes of recent years, as seen internally at Yahoo?
- oaththrowaway 5y ago
  Getting rid of Tumblr and HuffPo probably
  - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
    Ow. That's harsh.
ksec 5y ago
What are the modern tech Stack behind Yahoo? Still have any FreeBSD running? Do Yahoo actually use Vespa [1] for their search engine? [1] https://vespa.ai https://vespa.ai
- oaththrowaway 5y ago
  I don't have any insight into Yahoo search. Not sure about FreeBSD. My org is all on AWS + Azure
- toast0 5y ago
  I worked at Yahoo Travel until 2011. When I left, transition to Linux was in full swing. If there's any FreeBSD left, the host count has got to be tiny by now. Running two OSes is a pain, and Linux has bigger mindshare, so there you go. Vespa was extensively used for vertical search when I was there. Things like content search inside Travel, Local, Finance, Shopping, etc... was either Vespa or a predicessor. I don't think Vespa was used for the general internet search engine, but may have been used for some of the side queries that happen at the same time.
- Macha 5y ago
  > What are the modern tech Stack behind Yahoo? Too big to generalise. Shared tech stacks would be hard to call modern, but various tech stacks within teams were better. The more worthwhile stuff is open sourced (Athenz, Screwdriver) but there is a lot of shit internally, in varying stages of "deprecated but still the defacto solution". > Still have any FreeBSD running? I mean, there's probably some freebsd 7 hosts _somewhere_ and some of the internal tech stack supports it, but mostly it's RHEL6 when I left with a presumably-completed-by-now RHEL7 migration planned. > Do Yahoo actually use Vespa [1] for their search engine? Can't comment on search, but a partner team to my old team did.
givinguflac 5y ago
Will yahoo mobile phone service continue or be absorbed into visible?
- oaththrowaway 5y ago
  Good question. I mean the only difference is the purple phone right?
xn--7pr67wky3 5y ago
Under their Oath umbrella, Verizon operates domains (such as wow.com, love.com, etc.) that customers still use for email, do you think they’ll sell these assets off?
- oaththrowaway 5y ago
  If it's under the Oath umbrella, it was included in the sale.
Apocryphon 5y ago
Is the data from Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Groups, and GeoCities really deleted or is there a chance that they could be restored somehow?
- oaththrowaway 5y ago
  I don't have any insight into that. Would bet the world never sees it again though
- basch 5y ago
  You dont think its the other way around? "We dont want the liability of certain trash, please dispose of it ahead of the sale."
fdeage 5y ago
Do you think that Yahoo deserves its fate?

Yahoo employee. AMA

the_snooze 5y ago

How is babby formed?

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

Who will be hosting verizon.net email accounts, held by Frontier customers?

oaththrowaway 5y ago
AFAIK, those are still managed by Verizon
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  They are managed by AOL now. Access is thru mail.aol.com. Will they return to Verizon?
  - oaththrowaway 5y ago
    That's interesting. As far as I understood AOL mail was handled by Yahoo at this point.
    - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
      I haven't seen any indication that Yahoo handles AOL mail but I don't see internal stuff. The setup page for ext access to verizon.net/AOL accounts has a verizon domain for SMTP & POP and an AOL domain for IMAP. eg: pop.verizon.net smtp.verizon.net imap.aol.com ref: https://help.aol.com/articles/how-do-i-set-up-other-email-applications-to-send-and-receive-my-verizon-net-mail https://help.aol.com/articles/how-do-i-set-up-other-email-ap... Hopefully this indicates that control over all verizon.net email accounts will fully revert to Verizon. Well, more like a blind wish. AOL mail management has been a little onerous - like mandating quarterly login to the webmail portal, else get locked out of POP access.
      - Macha 5y ago
        My understanding is similar to oaththrowaway, these are all internally handled by the same backend systems.
ciabattabread 5y ago
My parents have an old Verizon DSL account, and their email got moved to yahoo, but the address still has verizon.net

ridaj 5y ago

What have been the great successes of recent years, as seen internally at Yahoo?

oaththrowaway 5y ago
Getting rid of Tumblr and HuffPo probably
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  Ow. That's harsh.

ksec 5y ago

What are the modern tech Stack behind Yahoo? Still have any FreeBSD running? Do Yahoo actually use Vespa [1] for their search engine? [1] https://vespa.ai https://vespa.ai

oaththrowaway 5y ago
I don't have any insight into Yahoo search. Not sure about FreeBSD. My org is all on AWS + Azure
toast0 5y ago
I worked at Yahoo Travel until 2011. When I left, transition to Linux was in full swing. If there's any FreeBSD left, the host count has got to be tiny by now. Running two OSes is a pain, and Linux has bigger mindshare, so there you go. Vespa was extensively used for vertical search when I was there. Things like content search inside Travel, Local, Finance, Shopping, etc... was either Vespa or a predicessor. I don't think Vespa was used for the general internet search engine, but may have been used for some of the side queries that happen at the same time.
Macha 5y ago
> What are the modern tech Stack behind Yahoo? Too big to generalise. Shared tech stacks would be hard to call modern, but various tech stacks within teams were better. The more worthwhile stuff is open sourced (Athenz, Screwdriver) but there is a lot of shit internally, in varying stages of "deprecated but still the defacto solution". > Still have any FreeBSD running? I mean, there's probably some freebsd 7 hosts _somewhere_ and some of the internal tech stack supports it, but mostly it's RHEL6 when I left with a presumably-completed-by-now RHEL7 migration planned. > Do Yahoo actually use Vespa [1] for their search engine? Can't comment on search, but a partner team to my old team did.

givinguflac 5y ago

Will yahoo mobile phone service continue or be absorbed into visible?

oaththrowaway 5y ago
Good question. I mean the only difference is the purple phone right?

xn--7pr67wky3 5y ago

Under their Oath umbrella, Verizon operates domains (such as wow.com, love.com, etc.) that customers still use for email, do you think they’ll sell these assets off?

oaththrowaway 5y ago
If it's under the Oath umbrella, it was included in the sale.

Apocryphon 5y ago

Is the data from Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Groups, and GeoCities really deleted or is there a chance that they could be restored somehow?

oaththrowaway 5y ago
I don't have any insight into that. Would bet the world never sees it again though
basch 5y ago
You dont think its the other way around? "We dont want the liability of certain trash, please dispose of it ahead of the sale."

fdeage 5y ago

Do you think that Yahoo deserves its fate?