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Yahoo's assumptions in 2006 about Facebook's futur...
maybe they could buy yahoo, but why would they even want it?
abraham
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Yahoo has a massive user base that almost rivals Facebook and is still one of the top 5 websites on the planet.
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It's amazing that Yahoo is still pulling so much traffic:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com+yahoo.com+goog...
heelhook
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For the domain? So mark can get the mark@yahoo.com email address he always wanted!
markyc
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I'm curious, besides having locked in throngs of users with their free email system years ago, what other competitive advantages does Yahoo have?
mightbyte
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They have the #1 news site, #1 sports site, #1 finance site, and #1 entertainment site (they call it omg!) on the web.
ig1
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Yahoo Finance is still the most popular consumer financial data site in the world, Flickr is the most common photo site used by professional photographers.
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