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Folks, please keep in mind that everyone doesn’t live in America. Yahoo may seem like old news for many of us Americans, but across the world, for many millions

Folks, please keep in mind that everyone doesn’t live in America. Yahoo may seem like old news for many of us Americans, but across the world, for many millions of folks, Yahoo is still a significant and well-known brand/website. E.g., I’m originally from Haiti. A really huge percentage of Haitians still use Yahoo for their email (specifically via yahoo.fr) and they even get a lot of their global news via Yahoo. I’ve seen the same thing apply in various African countries.

Eumenes 4y ago
Yahoo is also the homepage for millions of seniors who don't know how to change it, so there's that too.
- bla3 4y ago
  Or who choose not to change it. Not everyone who has different preferences than you is incompetent.
  - Eumenes 4y ago
    Who said anything about incompetence? Not me, that was you
    - bla3 4y ago
      "who don't know how to change it"
      - Eumenes 4y ago
        Have you ever watched an elderly person open an internet browser? This isn't rocket science homie
berniedurfee 4y ago
Same in the US really. It’s so excruciating to change email addresses for many people, Yahoo email is still rockin’ pretty hard. It’ll be nice when we have portable e-mail addresses. Having a phone number that moves with me is really convenient.
take_it_not 4y ago
I heard it's also very popular in Japan.
- bamboozled 4y ago
  It also sucks too.
- _yb2s 4y ago
  I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the window but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan
- viceroyalbean 4y ago
  Yes, but Yahoo Japan is a completely separate entity.
- deleted 4y ago
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- papito 4y ago
  Fax machines are also still big in Japan. https://www.insider.com/japan-cant-get-rid-the-fax-machine-offices-demanding-stay-2021-7 https://www.insider.com/japan-cant-get-rid-the-fax-machine-o...
  - pbj1968 4y ago
    And your doctor’s office…
  - egorfine 4y ago
    And floppies.
jstummbillig 4y ago
Anecdotally (and being a European) I was mildly surprised that Yahoo still exists.
- matwood 4y ago
  yahoo.com is the #9 on most visited site and yahoo japan is #16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites Anecdotally, I still use finance.yahoo.com because it's one of the best free sites out there for financial data. I also use fantasy.yahoo.com for some fantasy sports leagues I'm in.
  - basch 4y ago
    For those unaware, Yahoo Japan is a separate company, with a somewhat parallel history. It was a joint venture owned 50% by SoftBank. It went public as a separate company, and in 2018 took back all its ownership from the former Yahoo. In 2021, it merged with Line (also owned by SoftBank,) and bought the Japanese Trademark to Yahoo. https://www.yahoo.co.jp/ https://www.yahoo.co.jp/ https://www.yahoo.com/ https://www.yahoo.com/
- kirso 4y ago
  I believe they are still #2 in Japan
- swarnie 4y ago
  I've found their financial page to be one of the best free offerings around. Some of the data and its update frequency are additional monthly fees with my brokerage. Now if only i could convince it to go to https://finance.yahoo.com/ https://finance.yahoo.com/ instead of https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ when in the office it'd be great.
  - donatj 4y ago
    Oh man. I forgot about Yahoo Finance. We had a class project in Econ in college circa 2005 that involved making market predictions based on Yahoo Finance with a couple points of your grade based on how well you did. As I recall I did pretty well in the short term.
oytis 4y ago
Wait what? I thought Yahoo was an American thing. Having lived in Russia, then in Germany I haven't used it once
kleiba 4y ago
I'm using yahoo webmail for a secondary account. It's pretty mediocre now but good enough for a rarely used address. It used to be quite good though, basic but solid I would say, until they started "improving" the user interface some years ago.
rak111esh 4y ago
+1 My dad uses yahoomail too. My mom (hardly)uses Gmail. The difference, my dad started using internet when Yahoo was popular and I got my mom an android phone. He loves Yahoo mail and its good enough and there is no reason to switch.
mywacaday 4y ago
Would that not make yahoo more valuable from a future growth perspective. The market in the west is pretty maxed out.
SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I still find Yahoo finance the best in class since google finance upgraded itself out of usability a while back - admittedly, I haven't tried many alternatives.
- zeusk 4y ago
  MSN Money is a good alternative imo https://www.msn.com/en-us/money https://www.msn.com/en-us/money

Eumenes 4y ago

Yahoo is also the homepage for millions of seniors who don't know how to change it, so there's that too.

bla3 4y ago
Or who choose not to change it. Not everyone who has different preferences than you is incompetent.
- Eumenes 4y ago
  Who said anything about incompetence? Not me, that was you
  - bla3 4y ago
    "who don't know how to change it"
    - Eumenes 4y ago
      Have you ever watched an elderly person open an internet browser? This isn't rocket science homie

berniedurfee 4y ago

Same in the US really. It’s so excruciating to change email addresses for many people, Yahoo email is still rockin’ pretty hard. It’ll be nice when we have portable e-mail addresses. Having a phone number that moves with me is really convenient.

take_it_not 4y ago

I heard it's also very popular in Japan.

bamboozled 4y ago
It also sucks too.
_yb2s 4y ago
I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the window but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan
viceroyalbean 4y ago
Yes, but Yahoo Japan is a completely separate entity.
deleted 4y ago
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papito 4y ago
Fax machines are also still big in Japan. https://www.insider.com/japan-cant-get-rid-the-fax-machine-offices-demanding-stay-2021-7 https://www.insider.com/japan-cant-get-rid-the-fax-machine-o...
- pbj1968 4y ago
  And your doctor’s office…
- egorfine 4y ago
  And floppies.

jstummbillig 4y ago

Anecdotally (and being a European) I was mildly surprised that Yahoo still exists.

matwood 4y ago
yahoo.com is the #9 on most visited site and yahoo japan is #16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites Anecdotally, I still use finance.yahoo.com because it's one of the best free sites out there for financial data. I also use fantasy.yahoo.com for some fantasy sports leagues I'm in.
- basch 4y ago
  For those unaware, Yahoo Japan is a separate company, with a somewhat parallel history. It was a joint venture owned 50% by SoftBank. It went public as a separate company, and in 2018 took back all its ownership from the former Yahoo. In 2021, it merged with Line (also owned by SoftBank,) and bought the Japanese Trademark to Yahoo. https://www.yahoo.co.jp/ https://www.yahoo.co.jp/ https://www.yahoo.com/ https://www.yahoo.com/
kirso 4y ago
I believe they are still #2 in Japan
swarnie 4y ago
I've found their financial page to be one of the best free offerings around. Some of the data and its update frequency are additional monthly fees with my brokerage. Now if only i could convince it to go to https://finance.yahoo.com/ https://finance.yahoo.com/ instead of https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ when in the office it'd be great.
- donatj 4y ago
  Oh man. I forgot about Yahoo Finance. We had a class project in Econ in college circa 2005 that involved making market predictions based on Yahoo Finance with a couple points of your grade based on how well you did. As I recall I did pretty well in the short term.

oytis 4y ago

Wait what? I thought Yahoo was an American thing. Having lived in Russia, then in Germany I haven't used it once

kleiba 4y ago

I'm using yahoo webmail for a secondary account. It's pretty mediocre now but good enough for a rarely used address. It used to be quite good though, basic but solid I would say, until they started "improving" the user interface some years ago.

rak111esh 4y ago

+1 My dad uses yahoomail too. My mom (hardly)uses Gmail. The difference, my dad started using internet when Yahoo was popular and I got my mom an android phone. He loves Yahoo mail and its good enough and there is no reason to switch.

mywacaday 4y ago

Would that not make yahoo more valuable from a future growth perspective. The market in the west is pretty maxed out.

SuoDuanDao 4y ago

I still find Yahoo finance the best in class since google finance upgraded itself out of usability a while back - admittedly, I haven't tried many alternatives.

zeusk 4y ago
MSN Money is a good alternative imo https://www.msn.com/en-us/money https://www.msn.com/en-us/money