What does Yahoo actually do?
Mathew Ingram reports on Yahoo's troubles:
As expected by just about everyone, Yahoo released fairly laclustre numbers late Tuesday — and also used a word that you should try never to use in an earnings outlook: “headwinds.” As Rob Hof notes at BusinessWeek, this is code for “results are going to suck until further notice.” The stock was off about 10 per cent in after-hours trading, and that took it down near $20, or 40 per cent lower than it was three months ago.
Here's my simple question: What does Yahoo actually do? Can anyone summarize their business model in a sentence? Heck, even Sun's business model is clearer, and that's saying a lot for a company that just spent $1B on MySQL...
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Revenue
[Daniel Berger] January 30, 2008 14:43:20.507
I imagine they get their revenue through ads and pay services, e.g. Yahoo personals, etc. Funny you should ask that. I ask the same thing about Google.