The future of Yahoo's Web Properties
If there are not any last minute changes, the last days of the once-mighty Yahoo company have begun.
Verizon offered $4.8 billion for the Yahoo brand name, core patents, and the bulk of the company's Internet properties, and Yahoo accepted the offer last year.
The only major properties not included in the deal is the stake in Yahoo Japan, and the stake in Chinese company Alibaba.
All other web properties will be part of Verizon once finalized. The following Yahoo properties will fly under the Verizon flag from that moment on:
- The main Yahoo Portal and Search Engine.
- Major Yahoo services such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Sports.
- The photo community Flickr.
- The blogging platform Tumblr.
- Any other Yahoo property that is not Yahoo Japan (Yahoo Travel, Yahoo TV, Yahoo, Shopping, Yahoo News, Yahoo Music, Rivals.com, Yahoo Autos, Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Advertising, Yahoo Local, Yahoo Developer Network, Yahoo Homes, Yahoo Groups and others).
What happens to those properties?
All these properties will fly under the Verizon banner after the finalization of the deal. But will all survive the integration?
Verizon's plan, most likely, is to place core Yahoo properties on the same level as AOL in the company's hierarchy. While it could move Yahoo under the AOL brand, the other option seems more likely at least in the beginning.
That does not mean that there won't be any mergers. While services like Flickr or Tumblr will likely live on in one form or the other, the same cannot be said for smaller Yahoo properties.
Verizon may look for synergies between properties, and there are plenty. Aol maintains two tech blogs and one general news blog for instance. Then there is AOL Mail, and AOL Search, and entertainment and lifestyle services.
Yahoo News could be merged with the Huffington Post, Yahoo Mail with AOL Mail, Yahoo Search with AOL Search, and so on and so forth.
While there will certainly be mergers, some Yahoo properties may also be closed down completely. This would not be the first time that relatively popular web properties are shut down and redirected to others.
Remember AOL shutting down Download Squad and several other properties in favor of the two big properties Huffington Post and Engadget? The same could happen again.
There will probably be changes to properties that keep their independence as well. Considering that the migration is even bigger than that of AOL a couple of years ago, it seems likely that it will take some time before we know more about Verizon's plans with Yahoo.
Now You: What's your take? Which properties will be merged, which shut down?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.