Posted on 09/26/2014 11:48:39 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The service will shut down on December 31 -- just one of more than 60 products that the company has discontinued over the past two years.
But the real significance, if only sentimentally, is the shutting down of Yahoo's Directory -- once the cornerstone of the company.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
It needed to fail fast, and it did.
Almost all of these Tech companies are run by liberals. Believe it or not their are far less vocal conservatives working in their ranks working behind the scenes.
Think of it this way. It’s sort of a protection from an attack. It’s not as leftist as you think.
Agree
Well how else were you to find a site in the days before Google search?
There was Alta-Vista. Worked way better than Yahoo. There were WebCrawler and Lycos. Likewise.
When Google first showed up, I was skeptical. Google didn't have a fancy search language like Alta-Vista. But, somehow, its results were so superior that it didn't need one. It took a while for that to sink in, especially given Google's at the time much smaller database. But sink in, it did!
It paid millions to Katie Couric for “interviews”
it is pretty dang lefty
Ya who?
I wish their videos would work. They barely play. I get a black screen many times. This happens at work, at home using IE or Firefox and the comments at the site include many complaints about the same issue.
When it does play they end the video with their stupid Yaaahoooo!
I have had Yahoo email since the early 90’s.
I avoid their “news” as much as possible
I don;t care if 99% of the workers are “conservative” - Yahoo is leftist
Here is some news. Talk about throwing money away!!!:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recruiter-startups-offering-1-million-183600421.html
Large companies have seen some eye-popping payment packages while recruiting executives. Henrique de Castro, for example, was lured to Yahoo for a fleeting period by Marissa Mayer, who offered him a $62 million package over four years. The package was comprised of a $600,000 salary, $540,000 bonus, $36 million in stock awards, $1 million in cash, and $20 million more in stock. But two years later when de Castro left Yahoo, he walked away with about $109 million instead.
You have to wonder what he did for those 2 years, did he add more than $109 million to the bottom line?
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