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by XcodeNoob 5217 days ago
What if instead of suing Facebook, Yahoo proposed to Facebook a greater partnership and deeper integration of its products with the social layer?

What if Yahoo Mail and Yahoo News now had an advanced social layer that managed contacts autonomously (like GMail) and becomes official curator of news on a social level? (Not like, here's a lot of news, and then a commentary section. I'm talking a brief abstract with link of rest of article and just a ton of commentary)

That would actually make me consider leaving GMail (Really). And for once I would give a dang about the things being posted in my feed, rather than filtering out the majority of my contacts and likes.
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samstave 5217 days ago
Dear god kill it with fire!

The last thing I would be interested in is the husk of Yahoo imbued with facbook/social anything powered by bing search.

I've been here a long time - and I havent visited a yahoo site/page for probably 6 or 7 years.

I let my @yahoo.com mail die years ago and never went back.

Sorry for anyone who still likes Yahoo - I just find them completely irrelevant.

I stated several times on HN that if they had any wisdom - they would go on an investment spree in the valley. However, they are taking the opposite approach and going trolling.

:(

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bgilroy26 5217 days ago
Hadoop was developed by Doug Cutting while he was working at Yahoo. I think it skews the reality of the situation to focus solely on the public facing pieces of Yahoo (as a home page, as an email service), which kicked the bucket a long time ago. On that front Yahoo has been irrelevant for > 6 years, but their advertising business and their software engineering R&D department continued on after that.
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aaronblohowiak 5216 days ago
trying to advertise on yahoo's display network was, for me, an exercise in frustration, contempt and (ultimately) resignation
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samstave 5217 days ago
Sure, there were great people working there, but my question was and still is "are these people not flocking to google/facebook?"

If not, why? If so, in what numbers?

Are facebook and google not inundated with the yahooligans applications?

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