There is something to be said about the lasting endurance of Yahoo.
No fighting with neo-Nazis, or convincing your grandma that a picture of agiant challah horse is fake.
Yahoo can be a gentler corner of the internet.
Yahoo is incorporating generative AI into its products in light-touch ways.Justin Sullivan/Getty
It does not need to dominate the future of AI, or have a metaverse play.
The company also ranks as the top news and media destination in the U.S. according to Similarweb.
It is refreshing to see a tech company that is not trying to be more than what it is.
Some might say stasis is a decel view, and progress is the only way to move humanity forward.
But it is nice that some products do not completely diverge from their original purpose chasing new trends.
Yahoos survival also speaks to how tech platforms can be incredibly hard to kill once they find critical mass.
Yahoos costs have been cut to the bone over the past decade, but the traffic has remained high.
You really have to screw things up royally to kill a site like Yahoo.
We would welcome the return of Yahoo Avatars, however.
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