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Ask HN: Is yahoo still generating revenue?
8 points by Godwill 2131 days ago
Is yahoo still profitable?
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muzani 2131 days ago
A bit of a tangent, but a tenth of my organic search traffic comes from Yahoo. So people are still using it.
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O_H_E 2130 days ago
What! That's quite a bit more than I expected. I suspect it have to do with your niche?
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muzani 2130 days ago
The site doesn't rank well on Google, because of competing sites in the niche. It turns out 8th page on Google does worse than first result on Yahoo.

In order, traffic comes from: Bing, Duckduckgo, Yahoo, Ecosia.org, Oceanhero.today, Google, and the various country based Yahoos (nl.search.yahoo.com, and so on).

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O_H_E 2129 days ago
Wow, this is actually very weird.
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giantg2 2131 days ago
I have Yahoo as my mobile homepage. It has news from a variety of sources. Yahoo finance is also very useful.
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s1t5 2131 days ago
> Is yahoo still generating revenue?

> Is yahoo still profitable?

Revenue is different from profit. It seems like last year their revenue was about 2.5 billion and their profit was around 23 million - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/annual-report-2019-outlook-20...

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gabrielsroka 2131 days ago
That page doesn't seem to be about Yahoo.

According to Wikipedia, Yahoo's revenue in 2016 was $5.2 billion. Yahoo is now owned by Verizon Media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21

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