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But not until years later. Yahoo was still very much a player in the industry after the dot-com crash.

• thaumasiotes 4y ago
  > Yahoo was still very much a player in the industry after the dot-com crash. Perhaps, but were they a "real company" at the time? If so, when did that change?
  • danaris 4y ago
    I mean, what do you mean by a "real company"? It was independent—not owned by any larger parent—until it was bought by Verizon in 2016. It wasn't particularly "hip and up-and-coming" past the early 2000s, but it was still operating, independent, and profitable for years after the dot-bomb.
  • bandrami 4y ago
    They became a "real company" when they signed the search deal with Google and stopped using Inktomi (search had been a secondary feature of Yahoo until that point; the real "value" was seen in their Big Blue Wall of curated links). That was also roughly when they finished fully integrating Viaweb (Hi, PG!) into their store. This was if my ancient memory serves roughly exactly during the April 2000 crash.