[dennisnedry]

According to QuantCast (https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com?country=US), Yahoo still has 74 million users monthly. That's a pretty big number and puts them in the top 10 of US Internet Traffic. People still use them for news, search, and other web properties such as Flickr. Rest assured, there is money to be made from this kind of traffic, and Marissa Mayer is "trimming the fat", aka reducing costs, which generates more profits.

[ashleyreddy]

Thanks Dennis. I see that the quantcast graph shows a downward slope and a loss of about 8 million users per month for the last month. Extrapolating based on this trend doesn't look very good. Are they doing anything to fix this? Does anyone on HN use Yahoo regularly?

[dennisnedry]

They've done a lot, like rolling out new updates to Yahoo Mail (where they can serve ads like Gmail) and other monetization things like offering prints for Flickr. Only time will tell if it will be successful. There are rumors that Safari on iOS will default to Yahoo, and that may help turn the numbers around a bit.

[ponyous]

I would like to see Yahoo on iOS (even tho I don't use it), because I want to see Google to have a competitor. And in the last few years Google is getting stronger and stronger. I hope Yahoo gets a chance.

Where are this rumors from?

[dennisnedry]

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/report-microsoft-and-ya...