The Decline of Yahoo!...What Happened?

Do you Yahoo!? Probably not anymore. This video talks about the decline of one of the world's first big internet companies.
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[@lloydster9000]

Yahoo: You Always Have Other Options

[@Akunai_]

Nice

[@fergalbad]

Nice one lol

[@GarbanzoBeansFan]

never thought of it that way 🤣

[@mattshipley182]

Bruh 😂

[@dormi_torio]

Lol nice 😂

[@jamesdietz29]

Yahoo! is the "Sears" of the internet.

[@ariiii2398]

thats probably the best analogy for this situation

[@Nihilisterplayz]

Yahoo! Is forgotten i rarely see people use it

[@endcensorship874]

Perfect.

[@garymckee8857]

Correct 😆

[@WraithTDK]

GOOD GRIEF that is a solid analogy!

[@KB9TKB]

Wasn't Yahoo the creators of Captcha? Yeah that thing, supposedly meant to keep chat bots out of chat rooms yet the chat bots still remained while you, the real person had to verify you weren't a bot every time you wanted to enter into a chat room.

[@gtheskeptic]

Irony considering most spammers and 419 scammers used yahoo email addresses. The sites I was admin on just blocked anyone with a yahoo email from even registering on our forums.

[@929er13]

and then managed to fail and therefore realized you're apparently a bot

[@ccdogpark]

Yeah just about everything the idiots running Yahoo did ended up as a phucked up mess.

[@fallout560]

It was actually Carnegie Mellon University who invented Captcha.

[@nataliefranzen1114]

​@@929er13

[@kicapanmanis1060]

If Yahoo bought Google or Facebook, they would have found a way to damage those platforms as opposed to those becoming big as they did. Google for example was a big threat to the portal model and while Facebook complemented it more, I suspect Yahoo would have found a way to screw it up.

[@ZimZam131]

I agree 100%.

[@Oturan20]

Now I really wish they had bought Facebook the world would be slightly better.

[@ivanmaglica264]

@@Oturan20 maybe not, we would still use MySpace. Remember that mess? Cant get the the aesthetics out of my head: wallpaper of black background with bright stars, yellow blinking text on top of it, banners all over the place and music playing in the back.

[@belstar1128]

Yea for sure they would have probably shutted it down a few months after buying it and the internet would have been forever changed.

[@damac5136]

Agreed.

[@AskMiko]

Better reasons why than everyone saying "Google happened:" 1. Too much spam and forced ads within email 2. Homepage became a flea market of information and FILLED with ads 3. Yahoo focused on ads; not people thus the user experience changed 5. Gmail offered a streamlined; easy to use product that didn't force you to PAY to remove the ads/banners 6. Yahoo focused on 3rd party content to fill their pages which led to more spam, ads, and nonsensical info (once I saw 12 posts on Kim Kardashian on their homepage... WTF?) 7. Google's suite of products were easy to use on a smartphone/tablet thus leaving Yahoo in the 90s

[@DarthAwar]

Also they virtually stopped indexing new pages and stopped fine tuning their algorithm at a time when Google and Microsoft where vastly improving theirs especially Google! Ads Cluttered Hot Mess of a Home Page and Convoluted Search Pages Forcing Users to use their other services (buy not showing rivals in the searches!) and not making them easy to find and/or use

[@AcornElectron]

Where’s 4?

[@Mail4Profit]

@@AcornElectron 😆😆😆

[@fergalbad]

@@AcornElectron 😅😂 whoops

[@AnalyticalMenace]

Astute observation. Jolly good show, sir!

[@financial.affairs]

Yahoo is one of the best example of how if you don't follow the market the market will not follow you.

[@financial.affairs]

Any other fall from giant to almost nothing? I have Nokia

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@financial.affairs Nokia has made a return in name only being run by a Chinese company, and they have some phones running KaiOS which I find interesting as someone who follows tech, but I would never buy one with it being tied to basic flip phones. So yeah Nokia will never be what it once was.

[@financial.affairs]

@@CommodoreFan64 Forbes in 2007: Nokia one billion customers - Can anyone catch the cell phone king? And that same year Apple came with iPhone one and change the course of the industry.

[@the_rubbish_bin]

@@CommodoreFan64 Nokia is owned by HMD Global, a Finnish company, and they actually make some decent smartphones

[@hateercenor]

@@financial.affairs That's due to Microsoft.

[@OreoVII]

My first experience with Yahoo! was in the chatrooms for kids and some stranger asking me if I like older men. That place really was the wild west of the internet. Weird to think about how we all remember the 90's so fondly, when in reality we just didn't know how many freaks were around us until the internet connected us and information started flowing faster

[@kevinhead6413]

Kids ruin everything

[@hoehoppin24]

So do u like older men?

[@djomegaminus]

Remember when everyone used to type A/S/L?

[@terminat1]

There are "freaks" in every aspect of life, including your own family.

[@nodnarb3540]

Anyone old enough will remember, when the internet was still new and novel, it was so much fun. Nowadays it’s ingrained into the fabric of just about everything, but back then….there was just something so great about it that doesn’t really exist anymore.

[@fatlu1378]

yup...mIRC channels and all, yahoo messenger, ruined alot of marriages....lol

[@andrewgates8158]

It was wild wild west. Now it's future is corpora-f a s c i s t developed.

[@thomasleehowell7591]

Nothing but leftist BS now.

[@SomeNativeOfficial]

2:59 “David and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” sounds like it could be the title to a early 2000’s movie.

[@alvallac2171]

*an early (because "early" starts with a vowel sound)

[@michaelboyd395]

Sounds like a Tim and Eric sketch.

[@tylerpatterson3328]

Sounds like a band name

[@jonathanmarois9009]

Next up: David and Jerry’s Guide to the Multiverse

[@JustinShakur]

Starring Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

I left Yahoo Answers for Quora because Quora actually has people that know what they're talking about and Yahoo Answers is full of idiot 12-year-olds that only make fun of the question and don't answer it. Plus someone kept flagging every question I asked just for fun and did not get in trouble for it. Plus most of the "top answers" were the most stupid ones. It was just so frustrating! Also, my goodness, web browsers looked SO ugly in the early 2000's.

[@Dwedit]

HOW IS BABBY FORMED

[@ethanbrooks7648]

@@tylerl4320 I've had fun with Reddit, but it can get weird sometimes. I grew tired of people constantly talking about how lonely they were because of depression or because they could not getting a girlfriend- they ruined the vibe. Interesting enough, r/dogelore is the most sane subreddit I have found.

[@hateercenor]

@@ethanbrooks7648 In my case the reprinted clickbait and other Conde Nast "article" additions removed the internet experience from Reddit.

[@tastefullys]

Holy shit I forgot about Yahoo Answers. So mid 2000s

[@12012channel]

Yahoo Answers is full of trolls while Quora is full of pseudo intellectuals who think they are of superior intelligence and the second coming of Nostradamus. I will pick yahoo answers over Quora any day.

[@klaviersonate97]

Actually Yahoo still has been one of the main internet-searching-engine here in Japan

[@lucasrem]

Japan is a weird country, after fukushima, we never listen to whatever they say or do ! too weird!

[@Danewd98sChannelgaming]

@@lucasrem is this a joke?

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

Well Yahoo had one country to thank

[@Kbxbigbro808]

@@lucasrem Japan is a weird country. the disrespect for real

[@lulu_TheWitchBoy]

@@Kbxbigbro808 I mean... they can married their game boy... also Japan is still pretty behind, make sense they use Yahoo

[@LordArikado]

I feel like a HUGE reason that wasn't pointed out here was the PR disaster following a 2013 security breach that affected basically every single Yahoo account registered at the time, which Yahoo proceeded to not inform the public about until 2017. It's a wonder they were able to survive something like that!

[@mimimoon9313]

After my Yahoo email getting broke into several times and getting literal ads in-between my emails I finally cut ties.

[@CommodoreFan64]

My wife had her yahoo mail taken over a few times as well, and she just gave up on using the service, but I do have to thank Yahoo for it's chat rooms as that's how we met, and one time a year I check my 2 old Yahoo mail accounts to keep them active as they are my Gmail backup, I see spam mail from the bot who took over her account trying to sell me asian porn LOL!

[@epichypebeast1923]

@@CommodoreFan64 You met through Yahoo? Cool!

[@epichypebeast1923]

@the thinker Good for you!

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@epichypebeast1923 Yes we did, I was bored out of my mind one night browsing rooms by states got no where with my state as most where on the cost, and I'm on the west side of the state so went to a room for GA since I'm about 30 minutes from it, and randomly asked if anyone knew a few places as I have family there, and she responded, and it went from there talking online/phone for a couple of months not being able meet in person due to work schedules, and finally met in person, and it just went from there, and have been together since late 2010.

[@TheSameYellowToy]

Same. I would have to go through multiple security steps including text confirmation each time I wanted to log in on a new computer in the school library, yet an IP from Armenia was able to get in with no issues.

[@Riaden6996]

Well their "journalism" certainly doesn't increase their value

[@TheAnubis57]

Agreed 1 million percent.

[@AltazinMichael]

The one that doesn't allow comments and reads like a 12 year old girl wrote it?

[@CommodoreFan64]

@Cade Like Google, Twitter, and Facebook are doing now!!!

[@correctionguy7632]

"Yahoo Finance is as dumb as it sounds " -Elon Musk

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

It's likely just real journalism, not propaganda people may be used to

[@MrKevinp0]

I actually didn't experience the internet until February of 2000. I had purchased my first PC during 1999, and just didn't know enough then to even attempt to go on-line. I felt it prudent to wait until after the whole Y2K debacle died down. My wife and I were in a K-Mart in January of that year, and at the check-outs they had these "Blue-light" internet cd's available. They promised free unlimited access to the internet along with a free Yahoo e-mail account. I installed the Blue-light software, endured The Judds singing a song in a K-mart commercial that played every time you went on-line, and viola, I was on the Yahoo home page with my free e-mail. That was my introduction to the world wide web. Great video! Took me right back!

[@StayClosedDelorean]

I was really into Yahoo Answers when I was a teenager back in the late 00s/early 10s. Sure, it had a lot of trolls and idiots, but it was really the biggest and most accesible anonymous forum at the time, Reddit before Reddit basically. It had communities, an upvote/downvote points system, customizable profiles and avatars. Back then that was all you could ask for and It was fun. I left cause it simply got tiring. Too many flame wars and stupid people running rampant in the website. Plus better options were already starting to surface.

[@Kingsized_Kevin]

The Original Toxic Neck Bearded Mods

[@ishouldhavetried]

I expected you to say "Jerry Yang and David Wahoo" or something

[@Bla484]

Underrated comment

[@nslouka90]

Founded by Jerry Ya and David Hoo.

[@princesskristan]

@@nslouka90 I snorted

[@companyman114]

That would have been great.

[@diakounknown1225]

Same

[@flowerchildkaitv2702]

Yahoo was my first email at 10 years old 😳 I still use it for general store emails. Kinda felt like I was forced to make Gmail just to keep up with today.

[@joshuatapia5368]

@Richard Walters u too 😩🥰

[@unbezo398]

I so feel you on this !! I still have my Y! And only use Gmail professionally.

[@shanemane4249]

I'm the same way. I refuse to use it for anything work related, just for fun personal use of emails I'll never purge.

[@clairejasper1864]

SAME

[@daoyang223]

I uaed Yahoo up until 2017. I found out Yahoo is under heavy surveillance. So I just stopped

[@four-en-tee]

To be fair: Yahoo Finance was probably one of their more financially successful ventures.

[@Kpheark]

Yeah, I still look at that pretty often

[@PowderHeight]

No shit

[@cohenkevinloriqueen818]

Yahoo might want to start by reporting some facts instead of all their mis- truths!! I find their reporting nothing more than money manipulated propaganda..

[@cohenkevinloriqueen818]

@@Kphearkbe careful about yahoo news.. not a lot of straight up facts , but a lot of manipulation

[@Spencer_Ayyy]

I worked at a yahoo headquarters doing some construction. The employees had a plush setup. Breakfast and lunch were catered and the had a fully stalked kitchen. Employees had headphones and laptops payed for by the company. Was definitely a pampered place to work.

[@jliller]

So basically Google?

[@Spencer_Ayyy]

@@jliller except google seems profitable

[@thomasleehowell7591]

Ist week then all that shit went by by.

[@Jiji-the-cat5425]

Google disappears: everyone freaks out KZbin disappears: most people and all young people freak out Facebook goes out: all the old people freak out Yahoo goes out: Nobody notices

[@tktru]

Everyone would freak out if KZbin disappears too lol

[@Jiji-the-cat5425]

@@tktru Yeah your right, most people do. Though it's usually old people tend to use Facebook exclusively because they think it's modern and fancy even though it's old af.

[@WHEATLEYYYY]

If Google disappeared I would be happy. I know I’m being a hypocrite, using KZbin, but what else is there, Vimeo?

[@coolguyxoxo]

I wish the internet disappears.

[@belland_dog8235]

@@WHEATLEYYYY As much as I don't want Google to have all this power, like you said what other options are there? Nobody can compete with the ease of use, reliability, quality and overall amount of content on KZbin

[@Deknis]

And I still remember “Ask Jeeves”.

[@PacketWrangler]

Ask Jeeves and Alta Vista. Man, what a time to be alive that was.

[@scotts1356]

I HATED Jeeves!

[@bemartythree6589]

Lycos dude.

[@Druggy-Doggo]

@@scotts1356 apparently I was told Ask Jeeves was the best site to cheat on your homework. Needless to say I never found any answers related to my homework assignments

[@shenanitims4006]

@@bemartythree6589 Lycos, you beat me to it!

[@poisondart7789]

One of the things that instantly made me turn away from Yahoo was that around 2010, they got rid of messenger. This was around the same time Myspace took a dive. I had no other way to contact a lot of my friends, because we met in those outlets.

[@timf2279]

Yep I agree.

[@GBGuns]

I'll be leaving Yahoo after decades of using them as they've begun filtering firearm-related emails into my spam, even contacts I've corresponded with for years are now showing up in spam.

[@Demsky83]

Their big mistake when acquiring Tumblr was removing the porn. 😂

[@rezonpokemon3854]

Agreed

[@NickKont]

So true, but they realized their mistake early on and stepping back slowly but steadily.

[@skewah]

@@NickKont sorry man this ain't the one

[@NickKont]

@@skewah not sure what you mean

[@whitealliance9540]

Dont wack off it makes your brain smaller. Go get a girlfriend and love her long time.

[@scoosethemoose]

We need a "The Decline of myspace" video. Totally surprised you haven't done this one already. Anyway, love your content. Keep up the great work!

[@Outwardpd]

Honestly that one can just be summarized as 'Facebook started to exist ran by a cyborg and MySpace had a founder that just wanted his paycheck'.

[@silentmajority8518]

Cold Fusion made the MySpace vid. Check it out.

[@mariesmith8454]

@Заработок от 3000 в день , ????

[@generalzod7959]

no, there are plenty myspace vids.

[@upsideown1755]

Need a decline of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Please let this be a post in a years time.

[@Chae_shay]

Looking back, Yahoo! was a huge part of my life in high school and my very early adult years. I was an incessant user of Messenger, Answers, and Avatars. I was a big dork lol.

[@GainsTuesday]

Hang on. Jerry Yang refers to himself in the third person at 3:43 - that quote needs a double-check! I discovered your channel only this afternoon and it's a treat! You're a prolific creator, I'm loving all your content. Nice work!!!

[@josiahlee2098]

I think eventually Company Man should review himself and his slow rise to popularity

[@mariesmith8454]

Mr. Suspicious, I agree, though I didn't know he's popular, first time I've seen a video of his and, LOL, it was seeing Yahoo that made me click on it.

[@sulemanmughal5397]

haha

[@mariesmith8454]

@Заработок от 3000 в день, Say what?

[@xray0toole996]

@@mariesmith8454 :-?

[@xray0toole996]

@Заработок от 3000 в день :-)

[@Whitby_Abbeys_Ghost]

I stopped using it when they got rid of their comment section. I still receive my email on there but I rarely checked it before anyway.

[@jasonc8241]

Same. It seems like they wanted to repress free thought. If you didn’t agree with their agenda they didn’t want to hear from you. I can’t stand hate speech and will not tolerate it without saying something but I still understand that everyone has a right to their own beliefs

[@kashewz]

well they're always posting biased opinions dressed as news to further the liberal agenda, then gets butthurt when being called out as fake news.

[@carinedemolin7832]

@@jasonc8241 agreed. Most of the comments were racist, intolerant and uneducated and any attempt at providing unbiased opinion or evidence would just trigger a lot of hateful responses. They just washed their hands of it by saying comments were not moderated.

[@uacbpa]

Ditto. I went there just to entertain myself with people's comments. For actual news I go to other websites. The moment that they removed commenting I left. I agree about their insane bias in their "news", even if I agree with the point they were making.

[@Rose-yt5hi]

Let’s face it, the comments were the best part. There were definitely lots of instances of massive biases that led to hateful (and sometimes outright racist) threads, but it was pretty easy to dip out of those. There were just as many that were funny or insightful.

[@TheCoyoteOutlaw]

Yahoo was my first email. I had that email for 15+ years. About two years ago, I had to get a new phone and my Yahoo was attached to that number and the backup email as well. *They said they wouldn't help me unless I bought their premium membership.* The email has been free for decades and now they're demanding payment for an easy fix. I have since abandoned them and refuse to use them as an email service anymore. They're stupid decisions continue. And, yes, I'm aware that it costs money to run things, but holding my email account hostage until I pay is asinine. No other company does that. It screams of corporate greed.

[@tacobellcall911]

Man I'll always remember that commercial of that dude in the igloo barbequing. Lol

[@FNHot]

I used yahoo back in the day, in high school computer class, everyone did. Then one day the teacher said we needed to go on the internet and "google" a topic to show we knew how to find information on the internet. I never heard of google, so I pulled it up, searched with it; The way the information was organized, and how clean and simple the main page was, had me instantly. I never used yahoo again.

[@yungkim5834]

What year was that

[@FNHot]

@@yungkim5834 1997-98

[@CommodoreFan64]

Before Google became big I was using Yahoo, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Hotbot(it was really bad about even common searches like Ferrari, or computer parts for example returning illegal types of porn along with it so I stopped using that one fast), excite, AOL, and Searchalot.com(it searched all the major search engines at once, and returned the top 10 results from each).

[@yungkim5834]

@@FNHot that’s cool

[@pills-]

Yeah, the clutter on Yahoo's homepage always annoyed me. Which was why i used it as little as possible.

[@Beck-Stein]

“Yahoo is so last year.” -signed MySpace

[@rickanthony7081]

Reeeeeee yahoo dies after

[@PaulMcClennon282]

“It’s exactly what me and Jerry are: a couple of yahoos.” That was nice

[@firestonegraywolf]

I miss yahoo messenger , I spent countless hours chatting with people, making friends and sharing pictures and playing games.

[@twothreebravo]

I've been a Yahoo user since nearly the beginning. I've had the same personal email address for 23 years. Damn I'm old.

[@12012channel]

I have both google and yahoo email. I kind of prefer yahoo. Well, except that whole security breach thing a few years ago.

[@Envirotech]

Same I still use my Yahoo email.. Tbh, I don't think I ever used anything _but_ the email.. Oh and I"m on Flickr, too but that was more coincidental cause I was on Flickr before the merger and even now after and its owned with smugmug.. Moreso cause Google got rid of Picasa, that shifted me full time for my online photography storage.. 9_9

[@gabbar51ngh]

Wish I remembered by Yahoo email ID

[@alextong6226]

I would be too embarrassed to use a yahoo email address. It has this country bumpkin connotation to it.

[@whitealliance9540]

Meh. Call me when you log into your Hotmail account from the 90s 😏😚 i still have my @hellokitty email from jr highschool. Dont ask.

[@killerbee2562]

As a child of the 90s and early 2000s this video makes me feel old.

[@damikey18]

I was born in 2004 and i am already starting to feel old especially due to how fast everything is evolving especially technology.

[@kushendraramrup7073]

I do have one major reason to add that is not on the business side of things and only computer science students would know (and is how I know) lol. Their search engine algorithm is not as intuitive or smart as Google's. I remember learning in my Networks class that Google's search engine relies a lot on feedback from the user, it's where the "Did you mean to search for ___ instead?" Comes from. Google actively take what people want to find on the web and uses it to improve future search's. Yahoo kind of tried to tell people what to search for. It's an oversimplification for sure but their search algorithm was never as good as showing using what they actually wanted to find. It just showed what it interpreted they wanted to find.

[@dwyerjones4542]

Yahoo is SHIT.

[@michaelbyrne8238]

Yahoo news had a comments section on every article. When one article came out with multiple typos I criticized the author. My comment got deleted and I deleted my yahoo account that day. An account I had for about twenty years.

[@cooldbz12mach1padilla]

i stopped visiting yahoo when they did away with user comments on articles

[@request2000]

Because they want No Debate. They're LIARS who put up Lying Articles, reach their Own Dishonest Conclusions, then Shut Down all Opposing Viewpoints. The Editors at Yahoo should also be Tried, Jailed & Executed, for their Propaganda and Crimes Against Humanity!

[@fighterck6241]

@@request2000 You weren't debating. You were spamming propaganda and pretending that you were 20 different people liking your own comments. You don't want debate, you want indoctrination. I've seen those comment threads. Joke.

[@request2000]

@@fighterck6241 Yahoo is just straight Propaganda. Most of the commentors here are Sick of Yahoo, pushing Their Degenerate Agendas! And you're probably mad because no one supports your Sick, Twisted Lifestyle.

[@bbennyj]

Just a bunch of racial comments all the time, nothing positive unless you think that negativity is good for the health

[@cartoonlover4479]

@@bbennyj true

[@thegameczar]

Yahoo lost me when they were getting hacked every other day.

[@JohnMichaelson]

I've been on the web since it was invented, so long that I remember the days before Yahoo well. First search engine I ever used was called Galaxy, then Lycos came along, Altavista, Hotbot, etc. Yahoo was always a go-to if you wanted popular or "name brand" sites. Yes it had a search, but it searched its own internally moderated and categorized site lists at first. They just couldn't keep up if you wanted to go off the beaten path. Once Google came along it was over for all the competitors unless, again, you wanted curated categorized lists.

[@ivovanderavert1269]

I remember their e-mail service very fondly. Ca 2006-2007 they had this very intuitive folder layout. You could very easily make filters to send new mails from certain sources directly to a certain folder which would be highlighted to indicate that there was a new mail from said source. Also, it was very, very easy to just simply block somebody in your mail, their mail would never reach your eyes. I have tried all these things in Gmail and they are either not possible or very hard to figure out. These things may seem weird and trivial but I can tell you, if a world war breaks out within your family, you want to have these options. I hopped on the Gmail bandwagon though around 2010, mostly because of the storage space but sadly also because it was the more hip, trendy thing to do.

[@writerofthought8084]

I remember in elementary, we would play a game called "google vs yahoo". You search the same thing on both platforms and whichever had the funnier answer won. Yahoo usually won on those terms, but if we went on relevance, google won

[@DarrenHughes-Hybrid]

We played a similar game in my Internet Surf Shop class I held for the local kids club (B&G Club).

[@acctsys]

Enter Bing

[@tyreesneed]

sounds dumb. must not had much of a life if this is what you'd do for "fun"

[@bisexualichigo4227]

Me: “I’m gonna Google what happened to Yahoo....OH.....ooohhhhhh...”

[@astrolouise6904]

yep

[@crazyeyez1502]

Pretty much

[@TheEdorizo]

I remember going to the chat rooms always talking to people stuff like that I still have their email services today

[@argelbargel7680]

Comments sections in Yahoo news articles were troll heaven. Someone used to write "THIS PROVES POT SHOULD BE LEGAL" under every story.

[@Dullfang2]

Let's not forget the ultimate product placement of yahoo. In the inspector gadget movie when a billboard falls on his car he stares up and sees it's a Yahoo ad and the movie legit plays the ad theme. Yes I remember it

[@Christopher-N]

There is no _Inspector Gadget_ other than the 1980s cartoon series, and the comic strips. Everything else is a poor reboot not worth mentioning.

[@companyman114]

I'm going to have to watch that movie again now.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@Christopher-N Agreed, the rest is all vomit worthy BS!!!

[@potawatadingdong]

This is the first thing I always think of when I hear Yahoo.

[@niyah2wavyy889]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4XdYYlnp8pgqJY

[@dylannguyen9002]

Imagine someone saying “Let’s Yahoo this”

[@damondefranco]

In a parallel universe somewhere, people are yahooing what happened to google.

[@samsunglg6671]

And a 30sec Google ad just had to rub it in during the video 😊

[@lucapioltelli5554]

@@samsunglg6671 same lol

[@memeco50]

As old person I think it and might do it but don't say it

[@jmmatthews3115]

Yahoo was something I used for at least a decade. I lived on Yahoo voice chat and was a power Yahoo messenger user... Not to mention that Yahoo was my go to search engine from 1995 all the way up until about 2010.

[@ArielJerseyJr]

Yahoo was my first email and I forgotten where I used that email back then. But I remember creating one in a internet cafe shop with the help of my auntie.

[@brian4rmthewood]

I made a yahoo account in seventh grade as part of a class syllabus. That was in 2007 and I still use yahoo mail to this day. I like the layout. And I’m so used to everything I’ve never made the full switch.

[@coolbud7704]

Y’all are keeping yahoo alive lmao

[@deulalune]

@@coolbud7704 my dad will open yahoo instead of opening the mail button on his mac lmao

[@dan5974]

Yeah i hate that this is. Yahoo mail is my world now.

[@_gabbiness]

Same I use my Yahoo as basically my primary email, even though my high school forced Gmail on me. I switched back to yahoo right after graduating

[@929er13]

i had to make one in like 2016 and i keep forgetting i own it 😭 i use protonmail now

[@downnice95]

The Yahoo games room was always so fun and you always managed to run into let's say some real interesting people

[@brandonut99]

So many hours spent on pool. Simpler times lol

[@friggincanvee]

@@brandonut99 yes! Yahoo pool was incredibly competitive. Wow.

[@liquidsleepgames3661]

Pedophiles. We all ran into pedophiles

[@friggincanvee]

@@liquidsleepgames3661 did they play yahoo pool??

[@liquidsleepgames3661]

@@friggincanvee pool, chat. Any game. Even as a male of 12-13 in the mid 2000s i had been sent my fair share of unsolicited d picks asking if i was gay

[@lasso248]

I’ve had a yahoo email since I was 11 which is going back 12 years, and now when people ask for me email they are really surprised when I tell this it’s yahoo 😂

[@Mike-dx5jc]

I remember as a kid I used Yahoo answers for getting the Regii’s in Pokémon Ruby….it was also the same site that told me about the glitch to get Mew by deleting your starter Pokémon.

[@bgm1975]

True story...I actually met my wife of 20 years off Yahoo Chat

[@theoneaboveall6768]

Best chat not even close

[@soulhoney1908]

Good catch bro

[@MelissaTimea99]

I met my ex on yahoo dating back in the day

[@Yui789esss]

Lol all those bots and “ to catch a predator “

[@soulhoney1908]

@@Yui789esss What?

[@okaruto4064]

Me in a whisper voice: I still use AOL.

[@JohnSmith-mk1rj]

😳 AOL...still exists? I haven't seen one of their CD's in _years_ Those things used to be everywhere. There's probably a 2 foot layer of AOL CD's still wrapped up like new in their cases deep inside every landfill in America.

[@whitealliance9540]

@@JohnSmith-mk1rj they used to give them away in nice cases. I have about 5 left, i was opening them and throwing the cd away and saving the case.... Then I stopped doing that cause CDs went out of style... I wonder what would happen if I tried to use one.

[@sulemanmughal5397]

hahaha lol

[@Godly-Beard]

😂😂

[@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503]

roflmao

[@wildsmiley]

I started my Yahoo account somewhere around 2002 or so. I still use it to this day as my primary email. I like it.

[@Capnblinski]

For me, the downhill slide started the day I logged on to My Yahoo!, and the interface was completely changed and a coded, sluggish nightmare. Somewhere around 2007.

[@Rob07601]

I used to use their news, and like many others, often supply corrections to their "news" but since they decided "Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting" Their way to promote "engaging", "to connect", and "improve our community experience" was by blocking comments. Now I don't use anything but email, the same account I set up in the 1990's. So thanks for the email guys.

[@NeptuneNoire]

The comments were the best parts on all their “articles” which was usually full of typos, errors and just copy/pasting stories from other sites. And talking with others pointing out the stupidness of said article. Lol.

[@capenjck]

Same here. I got tired of their agenda driven biased news stories that you can no longer comment on. I use yahoo for nothing except the email account I've have for many many years.

[@scottpalmer9475]

Pretty much the same here. Most of their "articles" are biased opinion and some are downright dishonest. I think they got rid of the comments section because so many of the posts called them out for their lies and garbage.

[@miggans21012]

Their articles may have been dishonest but some of those commenters were the nastiest people I've ever seen. There was an article about Yahoo discontinuing their comments not even a yahoo article and those people were waiting in on comments of that article calling people names. I guess they've since refugeed to Facebook.

[@zaiks0105]

Ah, memories ... used to be yahoo troll buster in comments but I haven't used much since. Yahoo was in dire need of funding that they would accept anything and wrote anything ... from CCP to leftist agenda, etc. Now, they are switching to email pay-based support model ... something to watch out for.

[@SarahNova]

I just miss yahoo avatars :( I had a lot of fun changing it around, and I really loved the art style.

[@Chae_shay]

If you're still into that sort of thing, you should try IMVU. I used to use avatars too and it was so fun, but then I upgraded to IMVU which allows you to interact with other avatars. I left IMVU behind too but it was fun for a time.

[@salemibrahim6378]

thank you for the nice video

[@FhtagnCthulhu]

As a small child, I used Yahoo back in the web portal days early on. The internet was extremely different in the 90s, and especially pre-1997.

[@ryanj3281]

I am very surprised you didn’t mention that they no longer use comments. That was a reason that anyone left would use it, because it was always interactive even when people were pissed at each other. I’d like to know how much further they have fallen since deleting comments

[@chrismartin3072]

Yes, me as well. I stopped going to Yahoo when the comment section was cut out. Like all the rest of social media etc, yahoo doesn't like freedom of speech.

[@After4th]

It's like it was one of the last news sites left to have a comments section and not linked to social media.

[@TART111]

I vowed to never click on anything yahoo when they cut off the public comments. I used to enjoy Answers but it became junk.

[@ryanj3281]

@@TART111 same. I’ll admit to doing some trolling once in a while, but a lot of times, I was more reading the comments to check my sanity, because some of the stuff they put on there was so ridiculous, and it was nice to see that I wasn’t the only one that thought it. And just like the other guy said above, they don’t want you to have free speech on there either. So I’m glad that other people aren’t using them either. I’m hoping their value is dropping even more now

[@TART111]

@@ryanj3281 yes true. I loved it when we the people called BS on their "articles". Gave you a good sampling of public opinion. There were some very clever, witty users too. Lots of fun to read. They killed that.

[@lil_lyrix]

Their rival has gotten so huge it’s average for someone to say “Let me Google it.” Nobody ever says “Let me Yahoo it.”

[@radioactive_bath_86]

Let me Bing what Yahoo! is.

[@TheoriginalBillBraskey]

I always say look it up on the internet. I never google anything cause I don’t use google for search.

[@zaydapremadonna7704]

Ask jeeves

[@gabor6259]

Let me duck it. Or "Let me fire the duck!" if you're fancy.

[@thepeff]

TBF, Google was a risky bet in 2002 because no one was sure that their crawler tech would become more useful than an index like Yahoo

[@arcticfox6808]

2:16 I was around back then and I miss that internet. The internet where the companies that advertise on Google didn't control the search results...

[@Suge_Ah_Bear]

Dude, PLEASE DO A VIDEO ABOUT THE MERGER BETWEEN Sprint & TMobile & why Tmobile got top billing......PLEASE!!!!

[@nightmarezer0507]

Yes i agree. Please make this. Im curious. If you are reading this like this man's comment so Company Man will see it.

[@companyman114]

I'd like to Jason but I made 2 videos about AT&T in the past and nobody seemed too interested. I've stayed away from similar topics since then because I don't sense many people would care.

[@polishhammer1992]

@@companyman114 PETITION FOR YOU TO MAKE THE VIDEO REGARDLESS BECAUSE CONTENT!!!!!

[@EvanQiu]

Let's go binge-watch those two AT&T videos to have him make the video about the merger

[@jbdragon3295]

Tmobile is the larger company of the two I think. Lots of people were fleeing Sprint. Tmobile was on a rise. Tmobile had the better network. It would have been strange for Sprint to get to billing. Far as I know Tmobile acquired Sprint not the other way around.

[@kelvinlau09]

removing comment section just put the final nail to it's coffin, RIP.

[@hereticcreep3795]

Same I use to always read there always bias articles just cause how ridiculous some of them are but removing the comments was a a wrong move

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

@@hereticcreep3795 that's the only reason I use Yahoo was to go to the comment section. the comments were gold! I get a good kick of reality when someone exposes the news article, it was hilarious. but it was unacceptable that they think propaganda is more important than profit. that's why they removed the comment section. to me its unforgiving.

[@yoshatabi]

Same. I stopped using it when they did that. I used love reading other people's thoughts. Now I rarely go on Yahoo for that reason alone

[@LudicrousTorpedo]

Uhh hello ? KZbin is also starting to remove the comment section from 'made for kids' videos. Edit : Sorry bout that,when I say 'made for kids' videos,I'm talking about videos that with adult content and cursed words or etc,were eventually marked as made for kids. Or TV shows ( Like MLP, Gravity Falls, The Amazing World of Gumball, The Owl House,etc. ) that were watched by kids and adults at the same time. I know some of you don't watch kids content or TV shows episode clips that often,however this decision of removing comment section and mini player from 'made for kids' videos has been backfiring for a long time.

[@yoshatabi]

@@LudicrousTorpedo that's been happening and no one really cares about that because we don't watch kids videos. At least that one is understandable because people can be toxic towards kids

[@pyroAdapt]

Man yahoo answers was my go to for every question I had in life when I was a kid.

[@SPYK3O]

I distinctly remember in the early 2000s everyone used Yahoo, but Google came around and had a much less cluttered front page. Yahoo was covered in ads your slow PC at the time had to load. Google was quick and it just worked

[@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985]

Can you do a series called "2 names, not the same" this would talk about companies like dove chocolate and dove bath product and reminington firearms and remington haircare

[@nicholas5831]

He did that

[@back2damoon]

thats such a shit idea i would not watch that

[@RiderLeangle2]

Eh I'm not feeling that idea, the same company/different names idea is better, and the two big ones with that (Hardees/Carl's Jr. and Checkers/Rallys) were already covered

[@_totallynotscott]

not an awful idea man just nobody likes to say “good idea”

[@back2damoon]

@@_totallynotscott that was an objectively bad idea u dont have to take pity

[@RobertManzanilla]

Yahoo was the first website I ever used. It was the summer of 1996 at a local library and I searched for Bone Thugs lyrics. I'll never forget that day.

[@aidanflynn2037]

Thanks for sharing

[@MGAF688]

What was your second search?

[@sabrinashelton1997]

I don't use yahoo anymore outside of my OG email that I've had since 1999, but old school Yahoo was my favorite. My favorite search engine and my homepage. And their chatrooms were legendary and so much fun.

[@eurosonly]

I saw a table graph of the most popular and valued companies from the last 4 decades or so and yahoo! has always been on that list. But unlike most companies who rose up to the top, yahoo! was constantly on the decline from the start.

[@bortsimpson4536]

I finally dropped yahoo when they got rid of the comments section in news articles.

[@kalos53]

Yahoo News is unreadable now. The "reporters" all appears to be 14yo clueless liberals who insult and sneer at everybody and everything they don't understand. Yahoo got rid of the comments section because many of the comments accurately criticized Yahoo News.

[@Tom-ic7hw]

whatdo u use i would like to quit yahhoooo too

[@Newlopw4]

Only racists comment on Yahoo articles.

[@miggans21012]

Was it necessary for someone to comment that a woman needed to have her breast sliced off because she didn't agree with a article or politician? They were becoming too many threatening comments like that.

[@bortsimpson4536]

@@miggans21012 Was it necessary for the authors to lie, tell only one side of the story, or have an agenda. I disdain violence and crude language. However I think that comments were removed because people disagreed with the author not a few distasteful comments.

[@bproducer]

Yahoo’s decline was solely their degrading user experience... I was addicted to interacting and commenting on Yahoo articles however their writers became trash. Also Yahoo eliminated comment notifications then later Yahoo got rid of comments all together. To make things worse, Yahoo would flood our notification bells with junk they’re forcing us to like instead of related things we already like 😑😑😑

[@mrjohnnyk]

Yeah them shutting down their comments pretty much killed off what little audience they had left. They did it to push their political agenda, and it apparently cost them everything.

[@MikeBNumba6]

This right here is the real answer. When they killed the comment section and started sharing more videos instead of articles I started going to reddit or something to get my news. Not to mention yahoo answers wasn't as good as reddit too

[@12012channel]

@@MikeBNumba6 The only reason I even read the yahoo articles was because I knew the comment section was going to trash the article and the author. After they took off comments there was no reason to pay attention to them anymore.

[@MikeBNumba6]

@@12012channel agreed. I don't think I read any those articles. I'd go straight to the comments.

[@Zombie1Boy]

@@MikeBNumba6 No doubt, and its purely because all of the articles say the exact same thing no matter who is writing it.

[@CamerenCollierMusic]

When I was a kid on the Internet (2003-2009 or so) I had yahoo and have it up for Google when I noticed my Gmail always had WAY less spam.

[@cerebralfanatic]

Yahoo was probably my first email, them gmail came along and never looked back since

[@poolboyinla]

What do you think of the fall of Flickr?

[@mmrw]

Oh damn, I would love to see that

[@genus577]

What’s Flickr again I actually forgot ;)

[@correctionguy7632]

was flickr ever a thing?

[@michaelkelleypoetry]

I've never even heard of Flickr. I don't remember it ever being big.

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

It was photo storage like ig

[@tacoconch7678]

The only reason I visited Yahoo was to check my old email account. I would occasionally click on one of their incredibly biased articles just to read the comments for a good laugh. Then they shut the comment section down. I refuse to go there now.

[@Laz3rCat95]

I created my very first email account on yahoo but now I never even use it anymore. Now I use gmail and outlook.

[@mrjohnnyk]

Same with me, when they shut down the comments that was the end of me even going there once in a while.

[@charlessutherland274]

As soon as they bring that back, I'm gonna have sooooooo much fun.

[@matthewwalden656]

That’s the exact same reasoning for my departure. They shut down the comments as a means of censorship because their articles were so biased and slanted that everyone was calling them out on it. Also the comments section of their stories gave a true indication of how the average consumer felt. At least 95% of readers called them out, and the other cuckoos were there to troll the 95%. So after a couple months of stifling our speech and to censor us they conducted a questionnaire asking readers for their opinions. I told them what I thought and when asked if I would continue reading anyway, I said nope. Journalism is dead. They have “handlers”. There are no news gatherers with a newsroom editor and producers. They have handlers. They love censorship, and they hate you for having a mind of your own.

[@charlessutherland274]

@@matthewwalden656 I specifically told them I only read their "news" for the comment section. I even said I enjoyed calling them out on their stupidity. Strangely, they have yet to bring back comments. Well, it shows up every once in a while, then they shut them down again, I guess because everyone still remembers.

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

I still have my Yahoo email. They also offered personal ads back in 1998.

[@teknomax7883]

I had a Yahoo mail back in the day when G-mail was invitation only and Hotmail reigned supreme. Was weird to have all those news and info there, and my aunt keeps using her account to be this day.

[@vichocker9221]

The yahoo chat rooms were amazing.

[@KanishQQuotes]

That's how I lost my virginity

[@theoneaboveall6768]

That was the best thing about yahoo just like msn messenger

[@athulkrishnan3464]

@@KanishQQuotes that is fucking nice

[@zombiedodge1426]

The games page was awesome. a/S/l?

[@whereismyxanax]

You better take a seat over there...

[@alwayscreatingio]

I still use it for Fantasy basketball and Yahoo Finance

[@indiansfaninpa]

And Yahoo Mail.

[@NostalgicRemedy]

@@indiansfaninpa no one uses that trash anymore

[@growingup15]

@@NostalgicRemedy my mom still uses it and stuff and its fine

[@digitalfootballer9032]

Yahoo finance is good for straight up information about stock prices and basic information like that. But don't bother with any of the financial "advice" articles, they are mostly over politicized garbage and bad advice.

[@alwayscreatingio]

@Misterlaxx d I don’t use it for their articles just their platform to track my portfolio

[@TyeNee]

my mom used yahoo primarily for the messenger to talk to her siblings across the country. she eventually stopped when Skype came out and became popular. i think she still uses the email address though for work but that's about it

[@davidallen3158]

I was a huge Yahoo user in the 90’s. They just sort of went down hill in the 21st century. I still read Yahoo news until they removed the comments section. After that, I deleted my account.

[@Tornado1994]

They removed their comment section because it was infested with DANGEROUS Right Wing trolls inciting hate speech and threatening violence and Terrorism.

[@lillianp8900]

@@Tornado1994 you got to hear all points of views not just one

[@miggans21012]

Politics aside some of those people made death threats to people just for saying "can we all get along" or "have a nice day". How is that productive to anybody.

[@Tornado1994]

@@lillianp8900 95% of them were HARD RIGHT WING. And most of them THREATENED Assassination towards President Obama.

[@wallaroo1295]

@@Tornado1994 No they didn't - I was a hardcore Yahoo commentator for two decades. I saw far, far, far more "line them up in the ditches" coming from the hardcore leftists. Yahoo shut down commentary, because commentators started calling out the propaganda stories and countering the lies, with evidence. But hey, you keep on truckin' with your fantasy...

[@sarysa]

I still use their email, as I've had it for a whopping 19 years and it has become a growing nightmare to migrate. Seeing this video fills me with dread.

[@dwyerrr]

hey mike! id love to see a video on Ask Jeeves !

[@jacobboylan2369]

",it's exactly what me and Jerry are, a couple of yahoos." - says Jerry himself lmao

[@RenwaldoVanVeenmol]

My only memory of using Yahoo was from elementary school. At that time google didn't have any way to censor inappropriate content, but yahoo offered 'yahooligans.' A web browsing service strictly for children where it was impossible to search for adult content - like violent news stories or pornography. All the school computers had yahooligans installed. This was in the mid to late 90's.

[@somedude9528]

**Yahoo dies** Google: *Tell Myspace I said hi.*

[@JohnGalt916]

Are you popping wise on MySpace? Tom never sold our data or censored news that could swing elections. Tom was too good for us.

[@somedude9528]

@@JohnGalt916 Nope. Just saying it had died. Unfortunately, since Myspace was better than Twitter and Facebook combined.

[@rickanthony7081]

What?

[@SillyBarefooter]

Myspace still exist... Just not under the one from Tom. It's meant more for singers, artists, bloggers, photographers, etc....

[@jenniferbutler4491]

Love will turn you around 2022🇺🇲💞😇💜

[@memesredacted]

Remember all the games on Facebook? Like there was this fishtank one where you had to care for a bunch of fish and clean the tank and if you left it for too long, they died. And Farmville? I swear, once my grandparents found Farmville, it was all they ever did

[@pokemrstark7089]

The irony is Yahoo finance is far superior to Google finance in every aspect. 😂 I was hoping you'd touch on this tbh.

[@kamX-rz4uy]

Was looking for this comment. I never cared for Yahoo even in the early days but I still use Yahoo Finance.

[@pokemrstark7089]

@@kamX-rz4uy I'm pretty sure my Facebook account was set up using an old Yahoo email address I can't access anymore 🤣

[@MikeBNumba6]

@@pokemrstark7089 lol same

[@barryf5479]

Yahoo Finance went to hell after they "improved" their portfolio function. I used to use it every day for decades. I finally pulled the plug on it.

[@whitealliance9540]

@@kamX-rz4uy since all of you have intelligence to understand yahoo finance... You should go see the dark prophet and gain forbidden wisdom from him! G_D sent him to earth with a glorious fire... He studies everything and gives advice to many govts, people and entertainers... Some say hes a demon. Dont call him a demon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2KnZnWVpqupZ6s Welcome to the city of Sacrificia. We will only stay for mere moments. We must receive a message from the dark prophet himself.

[@fastertrackcreative]

I remember looking at the Yahoo homepage a while back and finding it overly cluttered. Google was just a search box, direct and to-the-point, Yahoo was search and everything else on the same page. It resembled a kids' magazine in that fashion, visually noisy.

[@thomasleehowell7591]

Nothing but T and A from ugly wanna be celebrities and leftist garbage.

[@had2galsinthebooth]

I didn't get a PC and internet service until 1999 I think so yes,I was a long time Yahoo user until sometime after I tried Google. Even after using Google to search I still visited Yahoo News almost every day,then,the morons stopped having comments under the news articles about 2 years ago. So now I only visit rarely to scan headlines and even more rarely to click an article to see if they took comments off suspension. Near the end reading comments was the major reason for using Yahoo. It sure looks to me like the comments "suspension" is bullshit to keep users around in hopes comments will return but it looks to me they likely never will. I also went to Google Mail as my primary.

[@Pixelman0]

There was also that time where yahoo did a joint venture with Australian media company 7 west media

[@SYIBOI]

I made a yahoo email account in 2006 and wouldn't you know I still have it today! Thanks Mr. Lake for encouraging the class to all make one!

[@FinestCitizen]

I've had mine since 2004!

[@brubru9663]

2013....

[@crazyeyez1502]

1998 or so. And its still my main.