9 Best Articles in 2021
Fast Company
The Glory That Was Yahoo
Fast Company
9 min read · From 2018 · For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
Gizmodo
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Gizmodo
20+ min read · From 2017 · Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea.
The Verge
Yahoo redesigns its logo to remind you that Yahoo exists
The Verge
2 min read · 2019-09-23 · Also, Yahoo Mail has a new design
Gizmodo
Here's What Happened To All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions
Gizmodo
~12 min read · From 2017 · Yahoo, the once-vaunted internet giant, is in shambles. Its revenue is in decline. Its shareholders are crying foul. Its prized public faces are scrambling for an exit, and the company has laid off 15 percent of its workforce. Its core business—internet search and advertising—is negatively valued. Looming over all of this is a prospective sale of the company’s core assets, bids for which have reportedly reached more than $5 billion.
Mashable
How Yahoo derailed Tumblr
Mashable
~13 min read · From 2016 · Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn’t for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor a conference call with her inner circle of Yahoo executives. She was late for a rare meeting with much ...
TNW
Verizon-owned Yahoo is killing off the best app it's ever made
TNW
4 min read · From 2017 · Under the reign of its new owner Verizon, Yahoo is killing off News Digest, one of the best mobile apps I've ever used in the past three years.
New York Magazine
Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?
New York Magazine
~13 min read · From 2018 · Yahoo was negotiating to buy Facebook and Del.icio.us at the same time. Zuckerberg famously said no. Del.icio.us CEO Joshua Schachter said yes.
The Verge
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
The Verge
3 min read · Apr 5th · Yahoo Answers will see its final day next month.
Paul Graham
What Happened to Yahoo
Paul Graham
8 min read · From 2015 · Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. August 2010When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the…
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The Verge
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
The Verge
3 min read · Apr 5th · Yahoo Answers will see its final day next month.
The New York Times
Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down
The New York Times
5 min read · Apr 6th · People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said.
SearchEngineJournal®
Yahoo Answers Shutting Down May 4, Content Will Not Be Archived
SearchEngineJournal®
3 min read · Apr 6th · Yahoo Answers shuts down on May 4 and users have until June 30 to download their data.
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The New York Times
Yahoo to Keep Alibaba Stake but Spin Off Core Businesses
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2017 · Yahoo has decided to retain its Alibaba stake and will instead look at transferring its other assets, including Yahoo Japan, into a new company.
oath.com
Open Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Big Data Processing and Serving Engine
oath.com
4 min read · From 2017 · By Jon Bratseth, Distinguished Architect, Vespa Ever since we open sourced Hadoop in 2006, Yahoo – and now, Oath – has been committed to opening up its big data infrastructure to the la...
pipes.digital
Re-live Yahoo Pipes
pipes.digital
1 min read · From 2017 · You don't need programming experience to get good results. Blocks contain powerful logic to manipulate your data stream. Profit from and support the open web, by consuming and producing open standards…
The Intercept
Delete Your Yahoo Account
The Intercept
4 min read · From 2016 · Reuters reports that Yahoo has designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, making a Yahoo account a toxic surveillance liability.
Hustle_says
The yodeler who sued Yahoo
Hustle_says
6 min read · 2019-04-22 · Twenty years ago, Yahoo decided to roll out a new national advertising campaign. Unfortunately, it didn’t reveal this plan to its star yodeler.
The New York Times
Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down
The New York Times
5 min read · Apr 6th · People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said.
Reuters
Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
Reuters
5 min read · From 2016 · Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
TNW
pipes.digital is an intriguing early-stage alternative to Yahoo! Pipes
TNW
1 min read · From 2017 · pipes.digital is a promising alternative to anyone missing Yahoo! Pipes.
medium.com
Scaling Google and Yahoo with Marissa Mayer — Class 17 Notes of Stanford University’s CS183C — Notes…
medium.com
20+ min read · From 2015 · Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 17 of Stanford University’s CS183C — Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — taught by Reid…
