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Yahoo Directory is gone. Yahoo Search is gone. Alibaba got away. Now Yahoo Groups is going. The Yahoo home page looks like a low end news scraper site, like Newsmax. It's now owned by Verizon, which feels they should have some presence in "content". Unclear if Yahoo is profitable; Verizon doesn't break out the numbers of Yahoo vs their other sites.

AOL is in a similar position. There are enough legacy customers to justify keeping the power on.

[tzfld]

The way they leveled down the whole yahoo ecosystem is amazing. It almost seems they've done this deliberately.

I'm now waiting for the mess that will be caused by the shut down of yahoo mail and the inability to access/regain the accounts on different platforms associated to these mail addresses.

[thesuitonym]

That's what's incredible to me. For me and many others, Yahoo was like a proto-facebook. You could go to Yahoo and spend your whole browsing session there, between checking your email, the news, looking at your friends' Geocities blogs, then playing some Chess over at Yahoo Games. Later on they became one of the bigger names in fantasy football.

It's amazing how quickly they lost it all though, and I can't for the life of me understand it. None of what they did was new, they just did it better (or well enough) and had the marketshare to keep people there.

What happened? And how do you decide that stripping away products people use is the way forward? What's the point of the Yahoo name, if everything that made it Yahoo is gone?