At the turn of the millennium, Yahoo! was the most visited site on the web. In Web 1.0 terms, Yahoo! was like Google and Facebook combined. So what happened?
https://www.techspot.com/article/2744-yahoo-what-went-wrong/
What Went Wrong With Yahoo!?
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Theinsanegamer
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A massive blunder of managerial proportions. I cant imagine being so greedy as to receive offers 60% OVER my estimated value, an amount so large that the owners would never have to work again, and demanding more.
dirtyferret
Posts: 899 +1,274
Family Guy got it
[Consuela works as the new CEO of Yahoo]
Guy: Maybe we should improve our business model.
Consuela: No ... no.
Girl: Improve our original content?
Consuela: No ... no.
Guy: So, we have no corporate identity?
Consuela: We secondary Email, people use to sign up for porn sites.
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[Consuela works as the new CEO of Yahoo]
Guy: Maybe we should improve our business model.
Consuela: No ... no.
Girl: Improve our original content?
Consuela: No ... no.
Guy: So, we have no corporate identity?
Consuela: We secondary Email, people use to sign up for porn sites.
youtube link
PEnnn
Posts: 1,285 +1,853
To sum up the massive blunders:
1 -Buying a lot of companies that had marginal value at hugely inflated prices.
2 - Refusing to buy really good / useful companies at ludicrously low prices
3 - Tying to combine everything humanely possible in one company instead of concentrating on being one very good company with much less useless baggage.
4- And finally refusing to see the writing on the wall and refusing to sell to MS at an incredible price.
1 -Buying a lot of companies that had marginal value at hugely inflated prices.
2 - Refusing to buy really good / useful companies at ludicrously low prices
3 - Tying to combine everything humanely possible in one company instead of concentrating on being one very good company with much less useless baggage.
4- And finally refusing to see the writing on the wall and refusing to sell to MS at an incredible price.
sickb0y
Posts: 28 +40
Marissa Mayer is what went wrong, she expedite their demise.
p51d007
Posts: 3,932 +3,883
We can only hope that Meta, becomes the next Yahoo.
Meta is certainly tracking to be the next Yahoo. They decided to expand into other markets after they started declining instead of trying to move in on the ground floor while they were riding high instead of moving towards decline.
Facebook attempting an uphill climb into over-saturated markets with entrenched, dominant brands is already a big reach, but then to emulate those dominant forces with not even the basic features of their competitors already in place is an even bigger misstep.
Zuckerberg putting all of his eggs in the basket of the Metaverse before it's even established as a maturing market is the worst of these decisions. The tech still has a long way to grow before approaching mainstream and instead of just building that on the side, he makes it the entirety of the company for years before soft admitting he was flying too close to the sun.
It'll be interesting to see what Facebook/Meta's valuation is in 2030.
Facebook attempting an uphill climb into over-saturated markets with entrenched, dominant brands is already a big reach, but then to emulate those dominant forces with not even the basic features of their competitors already in place is an even bigger misstep.
Zuckerberg putting all of his eggs in the basket of the Metaverse before it's even established as a maturing market is the worst of these decisions. The tech still has a long way to grow before approaching mainstream and instead of just building that on the side, he makes it the entirety of the company for years before soft admitting he was flying too close to the sun.
It'll be interesting to see what Facebook/Meta's valuation is in 2030.
What makes me angry is that the managers get millions and when they make terrible mistakes the worker ends up paying for that
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There were plenty of mistakes, but when they stopped allowing comments on their news stories and articles a lot of people left. As I recall, this was during an election cycle and they gave some lame excuse as to why they were prohibiting commentary. It felt like they were trying to silence the opposing voices who often took exception to some article they were posting. They definitely took a left-leaning approach and as such drove off many of their conservative users. Buh bye, Yahoo.
You mean the worker ends up paying for that. "the worker should pay for that" indicates the worker will pay for it because it's expected.
The only times I used Yahoo! was when I accidentally installed some toolbar back in the day and it would set it into my default seach engine. Glad those days are over at least.
dirtyferret
Posts: 899 +1,274
we live in a country that believes in capitalism!* If you don't believe that upper management shouldn't be rewarded for both their screws up and their ability to take credit for other people's work than you are a socialist and you hate America! Sure they may run the company into the ground, lay you off along with countless others, force you to sell your home, ruin your marriage, make your kids lives go upside down as they have to go to different schools but for pity sake these upper management people have to settle for six figure bonuses rather than seven figure due to their mistakes. That means Aspen and Caribbean vacations instead of Alps and Mediterranean (and not the cheap Italian sides, who wants to be seen there).
*unless of course you are rich than socialism for the rich is the chef's kiss
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I do not want to protect her in any way, but I recall they wanted to change things before her.
Problems were most likely stacking up already.
Soaptrail
Posts: 46 +55
That person blaming Marissa did not even read the article. She may have hastened Yahoo's demise but she is not the reason.
And the other acquisitions Yahoo failed to do are for the better. They would have ruined Facebook and others. Flickr was cool for a while but when large companies like Yahoo buy all these properties they fail to innovate so quess what happened to Flickr, it lost market dominance.
We have been through 30+ years of change from inception of the Internet to today's "ok I told you so" and the comments and criticism of those SO CLEVER THAN THE REST OF US WHO COULD READ THE FUTURE (I don't think)
I, for one, for over half that period have been a very satisfied AND GRATEFUL user of Yahoo! Mail - and yes, I was a victim the the hacking referred to.
I could not be more satisfied - long may Yahoo! Mail reign !!
I, for one, for over half that period have been a very satisfied AND GRATEFUL user of Yahoo! Mail - and yes, I was a victim the the hacking referred to.
I could not be more satisfied - long may Yahoo! Mail reign !!
Flikr was cool when they gave you 1tb free for photos. People from around the world competed making some of the most astounding photos on any subject.
Then they became the people of their word and took that 1 terabyte back, allowing like a month to save your photos from their servers.
I imagine a lot of people who ignore their emails were a bit angry when they found their photos were gone.
5 gigabyte I believe, they took 1tb and graciously left 5gb for free accs. That did some damage, possibly a lot.
That was done by SmugMug, Flickr's new owner. Now they say they never actually deleted the photos, but many must have deleted most of their photos in preparation.
lazer
Posts: 484 +151
In the mid 1990s I was building web sites with html and Yahoo was THE main search engine. To get a good position in their search engine you had to PAY them MONey. some paid, some didn't, the results were high or low in listing of your site on their search engine.
BUT then came Google with them actually going over all the sites in the WWW and puting it in their data base. So when you searched Google you got better results and more up to date results. Yahoo pretty much sunk itself when it didn't update itself.
the rest is history
BUT then came Google with them actually going over all the sites in the WWW and puting it in their data base. So when you searched Google you got better results and more up to date results. Yahoo pretty much sunk itself when it didn't update itself.
the rest is history
techstrike
Posts: 26 +24
Yahoo is what Unity will become, a big company with big bad desicions.
Riiiiighhhhttt....
That's why other companies didn't make these same mistakes. Most likely it was hubris that got them there instead of listening to outside input that might have steered them from those mistakes.
Knot Schure
Posts: 431 +206
Yahoo Answers, I think was the most visited Q&A site on the web, and they still shelved it.
The troll opportunites were so plentiful.
What fun. Stay at home mom's - likely their first internet communication experience, ha ha. How naive.
Watching the religous categories was piticularly entertaining. Muslims trying to defend Mohammads' SIX year old wife, Christians trying to convince me Noah's Ark was really a thing. All indefensible.
The music category was amazing, could pick up info on dance tunes one might normally be too 'mashed' to remember / ask about.
The troll opportunites were so plentiful.
What fun. Stay at home mom's - likely their first internet communication experience, ha ha. How naive.
Watching the religous categories was piticularly entertaining. Muslims trying to defend Mohammads' SIX year old wife, Christians trying to convince me Noah's Ark was really a thing. All indefensible.
The music category was amazing, could pick up info on dance tunes one might normally be too 'mashed' to remember / ask about.
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