Just in case anybody was wondering when Yahoo! became completely irrelevant
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A client today asked me for a POV on a tool called Yahoo Site Explorer, so I went to take a look at what it did, starting with its help file. Yahoo presented me with this:
(As always, click for enbiggification.)Ooookay... so Yahoo, which publishes a fairly complete and bug-free Javascript library, can't actually correctly identify that I'm already running IE8? So there's a huge fail number one. Let's click the link!
Welcome to 2008 everybody! I sure am looking forward to that new-fangled Windows 7 coming out soon. I hope it ships with IE8 by default! Whatever you do, make sure you don't add a "download anyway" button... people might be able to somehow obtain your product and you surely don't want that!
Bleh.
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Wait, Yahoo! was relevant? I must've missed it.
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Yahoo has been irrelevant for like internet centuries more irrelevant now that is being powered by Bing! their motto being: we just could not be bothered to make a proper Search Engine so we reap off Google results
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@serguey123 said:
Yahoo has been irrelevant for like internet centuries more irrelevant now that is being powered by Bing! their motto being: we just could not be bothered to make a proper Search Engine so we reap off Google results
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Reminds me of this pseudoblog post from July last year (how can it be that long? only feels like yesterday…); key screenshots:
Uh huh.
And what's with the Ricky Gervais stand-in, and that strange expression on his face?
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Obviously they require Internet Explorer 8, optimized by Yahoo, duh. How would you even consider building a site that doesn't require a search toolbar?
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@Someone You Know said:
@serguey123 said:
Yahoo has been irrelevant for like internet centuries more irrelevant now that is being powered by Bing! their motto being: we just could not be bothered to make a proper Search Engine so we reap off Google results
So?
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@dhromed said:
@serguey123 said:
So?
Punctuation reduces gibberishness.
I beg to differ. There are other factors that contribute far more to gibberish than this (for a fine example see SpectateSwamp post), also gibberish seems to be a staple for this site so...
Also: me sorry boss, my engrish no good
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I never really used yahoo either. Started off with AltaVista (.digital.com), moved onto Infoseek/Go, and then finally of course the Google for the last decade or so.
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@Daniel Beardsmore said:
And what's with the Ricky Gervais stand-in, and that strange expression on his face?
His wife just came home at the back door while he was browsing "InPrivate"
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@HighlyPaidContractor said:
His wife just came home at the back door while he was browsing "InPrivate"
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