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It's coming back to me (programming.dev)
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[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago
[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Imagine how different the world might be today if yahoo had bought google and tanked the fuck out of it. The whole modern web would be different. Perhaps the social media era would have never come to pass.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Bing would just have arrived earlier and taken over the search space.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Microsoft isnt well known for their innovative products, they usually reiterate on the same concepts. Every time they try something different they fuck up big time, hence the old windows meme of every second release being bullshit like win ME or win8, and now win 11.

I think if they had tried a similar product without google to emulate it wouldn't have been such a world changing tool that is essentially the operating system of the internet for most users.

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

We wouldn't even really have the web ecosystem and capable browsers if Microsoft had their way. They pretty much created IE to try to stop web apps from happening.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

If not them, then someone else would have taken the mantle. Judgment Day always arrives, WWIII/Eugenics Wars will still happen... it just gets delayed in some timelines.

[-] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

This is actually the good timeline. People hate google for their unsavory shit nowadays, BUT!

They actually had a very positive and important role in advancement of open source and open platforms. Chrome itself became dominant because at the time it was better.

Without google we would have an even worse situation

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

I still use Yahoo Mail. They offer disposable addresses with a suffix you can choose. I like it better than putting extra characters in Gmail addresses, because you can actually delete those Yahoo addresses.

Yahoo Japan is also a Y! fork that's still doing well.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

DuckDuckGo has a similar service. It’s definitely nice.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have three yahoo email accounts I still use, the oldest from about 1997 and surprisingly, the spam folder on that one rarely gets anything. (The other two are leftovers from when you had to get a yahoo account to make a geocities site). I really like the disposable addresses. Luckily I signed up back when you could have 10 on one of them. Then they ditched it for free users, but brought it back with the three limit. But I got to keep my 10.

Excite was my jam though. I was sad when I lost my excite accounts.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it depends on when you registered. I have more as well. I think you get a lot more in the paid "Pro" version.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Mark my words: I think it’s making a bit of a comeback given Google’s enshittification. They’ve also been acquiring ISP email services and showing other signs of growth. I wouldn’t be surprised if it re-appears as an IPO in the next few years.

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

All search engines suffer from enshittification because the web at large does. Switching search engines won't help escape it, Google's results are getting worse because the internet as a whole is. Bing's and DuckDuckGo's results are just as bad. And unless someone comes up with a reliable way of filtering AI generated SEO crap from searches, it's only going to get worse.

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Do you remember lycos or ask jeeves?

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago
[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I learned about them from* a print out at my library while using their computers (that I booked in hour increments).

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Altavista was my go to.

[-] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago

webcrawler was my first.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

Excite was my go to

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Do you... uh... Yahoo?
🎶 Yahoooo...! 🎶

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Still have, and use my account from 2009.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

This reminded me of Yoo-hoo

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Well, now it does...

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Just had one recently. They're not as good as I remember lol

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I had that experience quite a while ago.

6yo me: Its basically chocolate milk! What’s not to like?😋

16yo me: This tastes like chocolate flavored water 🥴

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wait, you're 16 years old!? No offense, but you're still a baby. Anything you want to do with your life, go do it!

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nah - I was 16 “quite a while ago.”

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I hear you...

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

When I was a little kid around 1990 you could book computer time at our very small local library. I would walk across town by myself. The computer was an apple IIe with a green monochrome monitor. You could play Oregon trail and a handful of other educational titles.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

By then you should have had PCs and be playing things like Kings Quest or Loom.

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

My schools still had Apple IIes in 1995.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

To be fair, they never said it was a new computer, just a computer. The things were incredibly expensive at the time.

[-] Dreizehn@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

How about AOL (America Online)?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You've got mail!

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yes. My dad is still using Yahoo mail

[-] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 months ago

I almost forgot about Yahoo, as they lost relevance in my after the cybersecurity issues they were experiencing during Yahoo’s heyday.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago
[-] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago

Unexpected null factorial?

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Billion dollar mistake: null or Yahoo’s capitalization on opportunities?

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago
[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Sad thing, I still have a Yahoo account. Had that before GMail was even a thing.

No I don't use it anymore LOL, I tend to forget I even have it.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I ducked it yesterday when I was trying to find a usable search engine that isn't just a Google or Bing frontend. Sadly, Yahoo is now Being.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Personally I tried kagi for a while and their results are quite good, but in practice with searxng I find most things I am looking for as well, and it is not a commercial product. And if need be kagi offers 100 free searches per account.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

What instance of SearXNG are you using?

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

searx.be, it was the preset for searxng in my librewolf Installation. So far i have no complaints

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago
[-] bastardsheep@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Do you yahoo!?

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I couldn't tell you how long it's been since I used Yahoo! to search for anything, but it looks like it's still around! I still have an old yahoo mail account I use just because I've used it for so long lol

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's now just a Bing frontend.

[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

Kagi for $10 a month ain't bad at all. I spend more on junk food anyway.

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