How Yahoo escaped its Verizon death spiral and became profitable again.

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/895221/yahoo-jim-lanzone-scout-ai-sports-finance-open-web

This is very long but I found it interesting.

Search stuff is about 2/3rds down.  Yahoo is 3rd as a search destination.

Saw that and skipped it based on the title. Maybe I'll go back and give it another look

>Yahoo is 3rd as a search destination

That's a bit of a surprise, but I guess it makes sense.  There are a lot of people who started using Yahoo decades ago and probably never stopped.  I still use their email.  I just visited the home page for the first time in a long time and I have to say it is relatively clean and simple for 2026. 

>it is relatively clean and simple for 2026

What news pages I happen to follow to Y are fair-to-good, too.

Yahoo News and MSN News are good ways to bot avoid the worst of the ad-infested media sites and to get around paywalls. I'm not sure why but it seems like a lot of publications allow more of the article to be syndicated than they allow to show on their own sites.

If I'm trying to get a bit out of the bubble of my usual sources, I go to one or the other.

If I'm trying to get way out of my bubble, I go into the belly of the beast. Worth a look just to know.

If I'm trying to figure out what's really important right now, I read The Onion