Remember when they could have bought Google?
I still use Yahoo Mail. They offer disposable addresses with a suffix you can choose. I like it better than putting extra characters in Gmail addresses, because you can actually delete those Yahoo addresses.
Yahoo Japan is also a Y! fork that's still doing well.
DuckDuckGo has a similar service. It’s definitely nice.
I have three yahoo email accounts I still use, the oldest from about 1997 and surprisingly, the spam folder on that one rarely gets anything. (The other two are leftovers from when you had to get a yahoo account to make a geocities site). I really like the disposable addresses. Luckily I signed up back when you could have 10 on one of them. Then they ditched it for free users, but brought it back with the three limit. But I got to keep my 10.
Excite was my jam though. I was sad when I lost my excite accounts.
Yeah, it depends on when you registered. I have more as well. I think you get a lot more in the paid "Pro" version.
Mark my words: I think it’s making a bit of a comeback given Google’s enshittification. They’ve also been acquiring ISP email services and showing other signs of growth. I wouldn’t be surprised if it re-appears as an IPO in the next few years.
All search engines suffer from enshittification because the web at large does. Switching search engines won't help escape it, Google's results are getting worse because the internet as a whole is. Bing's and DuckDuckGo's results are just as bad. And unless someone comes up with a reliable way of filtering AI generated SEO crap from searches, it's only going to get worse.
Do you remember lycos or ask jeeves?
Dogpile all the way.
I learned about them from* a print out at my library while using their computers (that I booked in hour increments).
Altavista was my go to.
webcrawler was my first.
Do you... uh... Yahoo?
🎶 Yahoooo...! 🎶When I was a little kid around 1990 you could book computer time at our very small local library. I would walk across town by myself. The computer was an apple IIe with a green monochrome monitor. You could play Oregon trail and a handful of other educational titles.
By then you should have had PCs and be playing things like Kings Quest or Loom.
My schools still had Apple IIes in 1995.
To be fair, they never said it was a new computer, just a computer. The things were incredibly expensive at the time.
Yes. My dad is still using Yahoo mail
How about AOL (America Online)?
You've got mail!
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Unexpected null factorial?
Billion dollar mistake: null or Yahoo’s capitalization on opportunities?
I r'member
I ducked it yesterday when I was trying to find a usable search engine that isn't just a Google or Bing frontend. Sadly, Yahoo is now Being.
I couldn't tell you how long it's been since I used Yahoo! to search for anything, but it looks like it's still around! I still have an old yahoo mail account I use just because I've used it for so long lol
It's now just a Bing frontend.
Do you yahoo!?
Kagi for $10 a month ain't bad at all. I spend more on junk food anyway.
