[samstave]

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.

:(

[bgilroy26]

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.

[aaronblohowiak]

trying to advertise on yahoo's display network was, for me, an exercise in frustration, contempt and (ultimately) resignation

[samstave]

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?