Google and Yahoo dead???

probably a regional dns / routing issue

www.yahoo.com is now being redirected to www.yahoo.com.org some advertising site...

http://www.pca.state.mn.us/artwork/frogs/0400-1.jpg

Running windows, do this: go to the command line and type "ipcongif/flushdns" without the quotes. If your ISP is worth a shit that ought to fix it.

the funny thing to me is that ISC now has a thing up saying they've been slashdotted. Which they were. Cyberterrorism is real!!!!

"Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she wants to give Yahoo users "something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day." She will need to explain how it will differ from what her predecessors tried to deliver. "

Is there really any reason for Yahoo to be around anymore?

Yes. I need to keep an old email address to use when signing up for stuff online.

We were talking about this last night and that's what we came up with. Also, old people.

fantasy baseball

I use a yahoo email for signing up for things too.

I like their real estate listings.

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― cestu, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:22 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep. Except that yahoo kind of fucked it up. But still.

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/buzz/buzz_log.gif

I want to talk about this and I guess this thread is as good as any.

http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/17/12790329-new-yahoo-ceo-says-shell-work-through-maternity-leave#comments

I figure in one year they will be crushing Google like th eold days.

They should just make a joke of themselves - "Yahoo: for those of you who still think its 1995"

or "Yahoo: register for your pr0n with your unused yahoo mail!"

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Awesome that they hired a pregnant woman but I really fucking wish she hadn't said that she planned to work through her maternity leave and had instead took it (maybe even a long one!) and set some sort of precedent. Ugh.

maybe she is just really lazy and only does like an hour of work a day anyway so she figures why not?

lol maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe though I guess she's quoted as saying how she only needs 4 hours of sleep a night and is a workaholic.

I just continue to be pissed about our shitty mat leave "policy" in the US and don't think examples like this help much in terms of changing attitudes/expectations.

My cowoker is on leave and I can't imagine how she can come back after 3 months and not feel utterly disoriented. I think it woul dbe better if the babbies just were put in papooses and brought to work, with everyone taking a turn at rocking them

In theory I support this (who doesn't love a snuggly baby in a papoose?) but what happens when one starts crying and then they all start crying? It would be anarchy!

workplace is already anarchy

So it would be the same but exponentially cuter?

http://dearmarissamayer.com/

"In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named "Jerry's guide to the world wide web".[13] David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!"[14][15] The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995.[16]

The word "yahoo" is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."[17] The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo! database was arranged in directory layers. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom," and the term "officious," rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo! database while surfing from work.[18] However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the slang definition of a "yahoo" (used by college students in David Filo's native Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to an unsophisticated, rural Southerner): "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Filo's college girlfriend often referred to Filo as a "yahoo." This meaning derives from the name of a race of fictional beings from Gulliver's Travels."

this is the spirit they need to re-capture

exponential increase in baby cuteness= cuteularity

yahoo's in bad shape but surely they could afford some badass teleconferencing gear for her to work at home?

or if she insists on coming in they can teleconf her baby in some kind of babbvatar.

will she even be attneding teleconferences during labor? with a special Microsoft Labor and Delivery Webcam ?

i remember when i was first using the internet, and i thought yahoo.com was the central hub that you had to use to access any other page

like AOL - people still use that

xp the day I realised Lycos existed (lol Lycos lol 1993) was the day Yahoo was dead to me.

I miss excite for no reason

http://web.archive.org/web/19961121190834/http://www.excite.com/

"Awesome that they hired a pregnant woman but I really fucking wish she hadn't said that she planned to work through her maternity leave and had instead took it (maybe even a long one!) and set some sort of precedent. Ugh."

there was a lot of talk about this on the NPR station in SF this morning, saying exactly the same thing. In line with Sheryl Sandberg's TED talk where she basically tells people "go for it", this kind of only works for a certain class of extremely well paid women who are exceedingly career driven. Most women don't have the luxury (or the job that warrants) giving up spending time with the baby and paying someone out the ass to do it for you, or a job with the kind of flexibility that being a dedicated parent to a newborn requires.

Anyway I was talking with a former Yahoo employee last night and asked "what is yahoo even for anymore" and he said if he were in charge he'd shut down everything except for yahoo news and yahoo movies. He also said there are still a shit load of old people who have yahoo set as their default homepage on their browser and it generates significant revenue for the company with little effort.

I cant belive Microsoft wanted to buy them for billions recently I wonder why they would refuse other than dont want to work for Bill Gates/Lord Balmer

Yahoo Finance is decent

Yeah, I've actually used that a lot in the near past.

yahoo fantasy sports is rad
secondary email for signing up for shit

not a bad business model imo

yahoo is still my main web portal and email. I'm sure there's plenty better, but I'm too lazy to change.

Their SEO spring-loaded headlines on the front page get me every time.

Burger King worker fired for gross act
It took hackers just 15 minutes to find an employee who posted a sickening photo online. How they did it

If you can resist that, you're a better man than me.

(he was standing on lettuce and 4chan turned him in, to save you a click.)

just call it MArissahoo

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-marissa-mayer-salary-20120719,0,5833890.story