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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.
- jstummbillig 4y ago
  How do you feel it compares to https://www.google.com/finance/ https://www.google.com/finance/ ?
  - matwood 4y ago
    Google Finance looks nicer on the surface, but doesn't have nearly as much data. It doesn't have options for example. I feel like Google had a great opportunity with finance and let it wither like so many other things.
    - rileymat2 4y ago
      No, it did not just wither, it was actively sabotaged for my use cases by removing data I used to use. It happened overnight with a redesign.
  - toyg 4y ago
    I honestly thought they had shut down this. Maybe they just closed the Api?
    - pooper 4y ago
      I remember having a made up portfolio on Google finance where I pretended to invest money in the stock market by pretending to buy a d sell shares and record my performance. It was terrible I lost a lot of imaginary money. Made me realize I'm not good at picking stocks. Anyway the point is that portfolio no longer exists on Google Finance. I think they rewrote the code behind Google finance at least twice.
  - jonasdegendt 4y ago
    I was unaware this existed but when comparing a ticker on both platforms Yahoo offers a lot more information and metrics, it's nice that there's no click bait news articles being shown for every ticker you look up on Google Finance though.
  - lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
    Google Finance is a much nicer looking product in terms of design, but the data it has is pretty weak. Yahoo Finance has much more detailed financials for a whole bunch of asset classes. For ETFs it has detailed performance data. For equities, you can get (and download) data on stuff like dividend history, stock splits. Just see for yourself. Pick a few assets and compare. It's night and day how much more detailed YF data is. The only real thing that GF has going for it is in Google Sheets you can put =GOOGLEFINANCE("symbol") and get the current price of that asset (you can also give it a second argument for other attributes, but the data on offer is pretty limited compared to YF).
- tempestn 4y ago
  Agreed; Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever.
  - mandeepj 4y ago
    > Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever. Same here! I'm using it from the last 16-17 years almost every weekday and sunday nights. Tried Google finance but I could not get hooked to it.
  - nradov 4y ago
    Yahoo Finance is the easiest way for individual investors to download historical securities prices for doing their own quantitative analysis.
    - tempestn 4y ago
      Yes! Back in the day (around 2012-2015) I did a bunch of regressions in R using YF data to land on my target portfolio value tilt. Certainly not something anyone has to do, but interesting for a finance nerd.
  - AdamN 4y ago
    Yeah it's still incredibly good. I like Ycharts too but that's not free.
cosmodisk 4y ago
I used Yahoo about twice. Then, a couple of months later, I tried this new thing called google and I don't remember visiting Yahoo again. So I'm equally surprised that they still exist after all those years.
codetrotter 4y ago
Last time I checked, Yahoo was using another search engine to power their results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search So for many years, there hasn’t been any compelling reason for me to use Yahoo for search
phantomathkg 4y ago
Yahoo is also doing very well in Japan
- lawgimenez 4y ago
  2 of my family members are still using Yahoo. I haven’t heard any issues from them for several years. Compared to Gmail which you can expect a downtime any month from now.
- huhtenberg 4y ago
  Wasn't Yahoo Japan always the Yahoo branch? Like incredibly deeply ingrained in online life on the Japanese.
- bushbaba 4y ago
  Yahoo Japan is a separate entity owned by z holdings.
- theo-steiner 4y ago
  "Yahoo! Japan" is a different company altogether from this Yahoo though. They were founded by the original Yahoo! and SoftBank. After the original Yahoo was mostly acquired by Verizon, the remains of it were spun into a company of its own "Altaba", which was later acquired by SoftBank and then made a part of Z-Holdings a joint venture of SoftBank and the Korean Naver Corporation. And just recently it was announced that the individual companies of Z-Holdings will be merged into one big company. The Japanese internet business is quite the rabbit hole! (Disclaimer, I work for LINE Corp, another subsidiary of Z-Holdings)
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    Cool you work for LINE. I quite enjoyed going through the wiki for Z Holdings

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.
jstummbillig 4y ago
How do you feel it compares to https://www.google.com/finance/ https://www.google.com/finance/ ?
- matwood 4y ago
  Google Finance looks nicer on the surface, but doesn't have nearly as much data. It doesn't have options for example. I feel like Google had a great opportunity with finance and let it wither like so many other things.
  - rileymat2 4y ago
    No, it did not just wither, it was actively sabotaged for my use cases by removing data I used to use. It happened overnight with a redesign.
- toyg 4y ago
  I honestly thought they had shut down this. Maybe they just closed the Api?
  - pooper 4y ago
    I remember having a made up portfolio on Google finance where I pretended to invest money in the stock market by pretending to buy a d sell shares and record my performance. It was terrible I lost a lot of imaginary money. Made me realize I'm not good at picking stocks. Anyway the point is that portfolio no longer exists on Google Finance. I think they rewrote the code behind Google finance at least twice.
- jonasdegendt 4y ago
  I was unaware this existed but when comparing a ticker on both platforms Yahoo offers a lot more information and metrics, it's nice that there's no click bait news articles being shown for every ticker you look up on Google Finance though.
- lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
  Google Finance is a much nicer looking product in terms of design, but the data it has is pretty weak. Yahoo Finance has much more detailed financials for a whole bunch of asset classes. For ETFs it has detailed performance data. For equities, you can get (and download) data on stuff like dividend history, stock splits. Just see for yourself. Pick a few assets and compare. It's night and day how much more detailed YF data is. The only real thing that GF has going for it is in Google Sheets you can put =GOOGLEFINANCE("symbol") and get the current price of that asset (you can also give it a second argument for other attributes, but the data on offer is pretty limited compared to YF).
tempestn 4y ago
Agreed; Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever.
- mandeepj 4y ago
  > Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever. Same here! I'm using it from the last 16-17 years almost every weekday and sunday nights. Tried Google finance but I could not get hooked to it.
- nradov 4y ago
  Yahoo Finance is the easiest way for individual investors to download historical securities prices for doing their own quantitative analysis.
  - tempestn 4y ago
    Yes! Back in the day (around 2012-2015) I did a bunch of regressions in R using YF data to land on my target portfolio value tilt. Certainly not something anyone has to do, but interesting for a finance nerd.
- AdamN 4y ago
  Yeah it's still incredibly good. I like Ycharts too but that's not free.

cosmodisk 4y ago

I used Yahoo about twice. Then, a couple of months later, I tried this new thing called google and I don't remember visiting Yahoo again. So I'm equally surprised that they still exist after all those years.

codetrotter 4y ago

Last time I checked, Yahoo was using another search engine to power their results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search So for many years, there hasn’t been any compelling reason for me to use Yahoo for search

phantomathkg 4y ago

Yahoo is also doing very well in Japan

lawgimenez 4y ago
2 of my family members are still using Yahoo. I haven’t heard any issues from them for several years. Compared to Gmail which you can expect a downtime any month from now.
huhtenberg 4y ago
Wasn't Yahoo Japan always the Yahoo branch? Like incredibly deeply ingrained in online life on the Japanese.
bushbaba 4y ago
Yahoo Japan is a separate entity owned by z holdings.
theo-steiner 4y ago
"Yahoo! Japan" is a different company altogether from this Yahoo though. They were founded by the original Yahoo! and SoftBank. After the original Yahoo was mostly acquired by Verizon, the remains of it were spun into a company of its own "Altaba", which was later acquired by SoftBank and then made a part of Z-Holdings a joint venture of SoftBank and the Korean Naver Corporation. And just recently it was announced that the individual companies of Z-Holdings will be merged into one big company. The Japanese internet business is quite the rabbit hole! (Disclaimer, I work for LINE Corp, another subsidiary of Z-Holdings)
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  Cool you work for LINE. I quite enjoyed going through the wiki for Z Holdings