MetaFilter posts tagged with Yahoo and web

Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web

plexi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:48:45 -0800

Jerry Yang, founder and CEO of Yahoo, has stepped down. He recently turned down a $31 a share offer from Microsoft, and with Yahoo shares hovering around $10, some say he was forced out.

Yahoo's search slider interface for weeding out commercial stuff.

Tlogmer — Sun, 29 May 2005 17:48:24 -0800

Yahoo doesn't get enough credit.

Pupna Fetch Engine

Metauser — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:40:01 -0800

Pupna is "the search engine puppy that retrieves EXACTLY what you are searching for (and absolutely nothing else!)" ;-)

This is a simple yet rather humorous search engine parody - are there any other good ones out there?

elfgirl — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 05:40:45 -0800

It was with great fanfare from Yahoo, and uproar from the users, that Yahoo took over Webring last year. Now, with not so much as a whisper, they have given it back up. It still looks and feels like the Yahoo Webring, but many of the functions that were stripped from the Yahoo version of the system have been reinstituted. Is this too little, too late -- or will Webring be able to steal back some of its former users from sites such as RingSurf who benefited so greatly from Webring's previous demise?

mmarcos — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 06:32:07 -0800

Subscription-based web tools: another nail in the coffin of free web services? Yahoo is apparently testing the waters for a subscription-based web Office app. I use their (free) email, notepad, bookmark and briefcase tools on occasion. Nice to have, but you have to wonder how long they can remain free. Don't know if I would pay for them, depends on what service level guarantees they would offer in return. How would people would react if they suddenly started charging for these things? Is it still too unrealistic to wonder how long till our operating system needs a local drive only to boot up?

kristin — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 13:18:11 -0800

Yahoo-ification of the Web. Yahoo buys E-Groups. They bought Webring.org a few months back. What is next? Will my Yahoo screen name become my legal name? And don't even talk to me about the spam issue, because I might start to cry.