[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?