Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :)

Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager that if yahoo is put on stock market, its valuation will be around $10B although private equity has spent only 4B$ on acquiring them. Who knows what went into the discussions.

Why did I leave? Because I figured my career growth is elsewhere.

One thing I learnt at yahoo is that large companies take a very long time to die . You can have a profitable career in them, even if YoY growth is slowing.

Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy

It always has! This is one of Yahoo's best-kept secrets, sadly.

(I worked on Yahoo Search — and search.yahoo.com — from 2007 to 2010)

and in difference to google you don't get swamped by ads that much, I mean the search results seem seriously better then 2023 google...

search results page isn't even responsive. Because I am using vertical tabs I need to scroll sideways..

indeed. Shows again the milliseconds really count

It works without JS!

> When was the last time you changed your mail id?

In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.

>When was the last time you changed your mail id?

I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.

Most growth currently is international. Remember, gmail doesn't work in China :)

Interesting point but makes me wonder whether it's meaningful. There are plenty of local Chinese email providers, why would anyone choose Yahoo specifically?

Speaking as someone that lived in a non-Western country: specifically because it is a recognizably western and non-Chinese brand.

Which Yahoo services work in China?

> When was the last time you changed your mail id?

19 years ago, the minute gmail offered a better alternative to Yahoo!

Good. Similarly there are people who are happy with Yahoo and stuck with it since a long time. Overtime, all the most important/common features in Gmail are also in Yahoo.

Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.

Yahoo Finance is still the best

for comparative purposes snap do 4b a year and are a bit flat, same as Pinterest. Last 10k I saw from yahoo is 2016 where they also did 5b top line.