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Yahoo! Sucks At Handling Acquisitions

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from the throw-out-the-goodwill dept

Thu, Feb 15th 2001 1:40pm — Mike Masnick
Here's an article suggesting that what's really wrong with Yahoo! is that they suck in handling acquisitions. The main complaint is that they throw out a lot of goodwill in renaming their acquisitions (such as eGroups to YahooGroups) and piss off their users by requiring new logins, changing links and bookmarks, and basically making everything a mess for no good reason.
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    R, 16 Feb 2001 @ 8:11pm

    They did a good job with rocketmail

    I'm all for banging on the big dot-coms, but they did a great job with Rocketmail.

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    Anonymous Coward, 18 Feb 2001 @ 2:30pm

    Just like Google

    Look at what a mess google has made of dejanews. Instead of keeping the interface alive until they had something else, they bought the data, killed the interface and pissed of the users. Yeah, that's a good idea...

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