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▶ 3:58 Benedict Evans Like, you know, if you remember, you know, I cannot, you know, remember, like, everyone used Yahoo, and then everyone switched to Google, because it actually was better.
▶ 11:16 Benedict Evans It loaded a homepage from the browser maker, or from Apple, or someone, or Yahoo, or it took you to Yahoo, or it took you to the ISPs portal, or something, but it gave you a bunch of suggestions as to what the, what you could do on the… 2 times in the scene

▶ 18:04 Benedict Evans Um, it was one of those cool things that got bought by Yahoo and then forgotten about.

▶ 25:19 Benedict Evans There's obviously there's the stories about, you know, Yahoo thinking that search, it wasn't Yahoo, it was one of these companies saying that like, we don't want to make search better because then people will leave the site quicker and say… 2 times in the scene
▶ 33:04 Benedict Evans So it goes to procurement and procurement people go to Yahoo and they go to Yahoo 2 times in the scene

▶ 25:08 Benedict Evans You didn't have all of the kind of the basic building blocks on top of which Yahoo and eBay and AOL and everything else got built and like, yes, I'm jumbling up the timeline a bit here, but it's like you don't have the stuff you need to… 2 times in the scene

▶ 22:08 Benedict Evans So the, um, Yahoo, the original Yahoo directory, which was a hierarchical directory of every website that there was, which sounds like a joke now, but this was how it worked in the late nineties. 3 times in the scene
▶ 22:08 Benedict Evans So the, um, Yahoo, the original Yahoo directory, which was a hierarchical directory of every website that there was, which sounds like a joke now, but this was how it worked in the late nineties.

▶ 1:33 Benedict Evans You get companies like Yahoo, and eBay, and Amazon, and people making websites and putting content on them. 2 times in the scene

▶ 11:08 Benedict Evans You know, or AOL had been run by different people, then maybe we might all be using Yahoo now.
▶ 30:07 unnamed speaker I mean, my agency was working with, uh, Yahoo for quite a while when they were still, you know, number one, they were, you know, they were attracting 80% of, of, um, digital media

▶ 15:15 Benedict Evans Um, go to Japan, and like half of that doesn't apply, and the companies are all different, and it's SoftBank, and Yahoo is still a thing. 3 times in the scene
▶ 54:28 Benedict Evans And actually the Chinese winners look a lot more like Yahoo than they look like Google in many ways.

▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans Which is, frankly, Condé Nast, which is sort of other, and News Corporation, and Yahoo, and AOL, and everything else, which is all in that sort of the remaining, whatever the number is, a third or so of online advertising, which is a bit…

▶ 10:14 Benedict Evans Like if, if Yahoo had been run by completely different kinds of people, um, 3 times in the scene

▶ 8:41 Benedict Evans So it's like just, it was bought by Yahoo, disappeared into Verizon.

▶ 18:16 Bernadette Kevins So Stuart Butterfield, back in the early 2000, um, Stuart Butterfield and Katerina Flake created, were making a games company, and they needed an asset management tool to manage all the images, and the game never worked, but the asset…

▶ 19:14 Benedict Evans And so the way I, what I was thinking about originally was Yahoo and then the Yahoo directory, which is before all the portal stuff, there was a directory. 2 times in the scene
▶ 19:14 Benedict Evans And so the way I, what I was thinking about originally was Yahoo and then the Yahoo directory, which is before all the portal stuff, there was a directory.

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