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user-inactivated  ·  3044 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The four accomplishments that can't be taken away from Marissa Mayer

Yahoo wasn't bad for the case of "I know this thing exists, and that's about all I know about it. I want to fix that.", like a lot of people use wikipedia for now. You wouldn't get deep into anything off the beaten path, but you could usually learn enough to go digging.





kleinbl00  ·  3044 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Where would Yahoo be if they could have crowd-sourced their indexing?

user-inactivated  ·  3044 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gnuhoo tried it, but a little too late to matter. It still exists as DMOZ, so I guess it wasn't a failure, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone mention using it.

user-inactivated  ·  3044 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Where would Yahoo be if they could have crowd-sourced their indexing?

They would Own the net.