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> Most people don't know and don't care. Search is the thing that pops up and they type into. You can even change that? To what? There are others? So we’re all

• potatolicious 3y ago
  I think that's their entire point - it took many years for Altavista and Yahoo to die, and Yahoo isn't even dead yet in some markets (see: Japan). Google eclipsed their capabilities >25 years ago and yet some of them are still kicking around. Inertia is a very strong thing.
  • shiroiuma 3y ago
    Yahoo! Japan isn't related to anything outside of Japan: the brand was bought by SoftBank a while ago. Also, I've never heard of anyone actually using it for search, though maybe older people still do (the same people who use fax machines at home...). Everyone I've met uses Google.
• lifeisstillgood 3y ago
  No the internet population at time of Yahoo was X (say 400 million desktop PCs) about year 2000. Then google started to gain ground and from 2000-2010 internet population went from 400M to 4Bn - and even if every yahoo user from 2000 stuck with yahoo they were just 10% of users - and those users defaulted to google (partly actual defaults, partly fashion, partly here is how you do a search")