I cannot understand how. Do they have some big deals with some vendors to be the default on cheap laptops or something? Otherwise, who is using yahoo search?
Sports, News, and Finance. Those verticals are all MASSIVE. Remember, just because you don't use them, that doesn't mean no one does.
My opinion, news is pretty clickbaity but Sports (particularly the season-long fantasy games) and Finance are both still best-in-class. It's borderline amazing how resilient they've been.
I like yahoo finance. Also when it seems like slack is having whatever issue and won’t load I open up yahoo to see if it’s my internet that’s the problem.
Muscle memory from my childhood days when I’d type in yahoo and edit my avatar lol.
I suspect they are the most popular Fantasy Football platform.
Yahoo focused on building a large collection of different sites. I don't think search for Yahoo was ever very good, but they could accumulate reach by capturing different audiences.
During the ‘90s I pinged yahoo servers 24x7 to keep the inactivity timeout from dropping my connection. Then one day the phone rang - and I discovered they had blocked ICMP so my connection dropped.
There were so many telemarketers pounding my phone that anytime I got disconnected the phone would ring within thirty seconds and that would be my cue to go investigate.
My primary personal mail account is still a Yahoo Mail account that was spun off from Verizon some years ago. But I haven't used their search in... I'm gonna guess 15 years?
