Could Yahoo possibly be the perfect search engine for photographers?

[deep diver]

Some of the images cannot be downloaded unless you use a workaround (which you shouldn't do).

Just the fact that we're having this discussion is evidence of how big of a problem this is. Most people are of good will. The ease of access that the internet (or any electronic medium) gives makes the impact of the bad actors that much more significant. I had someone try to appropriate one of my posted images. No one ever tried to take my slides.

 

[AutomaticApple]

We’ve had this conversation on other threads. But just because something can be downloaded without jumping through hoops doesn’t mean it’s legal or right to do so.

On Flickr, I believe you have to explicitly state permission if you're okay with one of your images being downloaded.

 

[ericwn]

I don't remember them wanting to sell Yahoo. They still own Yahoo.

Speaking of Yahoo...

You probably haven’t used Yahoo in a while, but what if it cost you money?

Verizon has big plans for the Yahoo brand.

www.theverge.com

Him I wish them good luck. In my experience this will suffer the success of Google Hangouts but we shall see. AOL retained some folks as well I guess.

 

[AutomaticApple]

In my experience this will suffer the success of Google Hangouts but we shall see.

What happened with Google Hangouts?

 

[ericwn]

What happened with Google Hangouts?

In my experience other services took its place both on a private as well as a business level.
YMMV of course

 

[AutomaticApple]

In my experience other services took its place both on a private as well as a business level.

It seems that Google will be replacing it with a superior version.

The latest on Google Hangouts and the upgrade to Google Chat

An update for Hangouts users, including those who use Hangouts with Google Fi and Google Voice—and details about the future upgrade from Hangouts to Chat.

blog.google

 

[ericwn]

It seems that Google will be replacing it with a superior version.

The latest on Google Hangouts and the upgrade to Google Chat

An update for Hangouts users, including those who use Hangouts with Google Fi and Google Voice—and details about the future upgrade from Hangouts to Chat.

blog.google

Yeah good luck to them catching zoom and slack on corporate or WhatsApp, wechat, FB messenger, iMessage etc on the private levels.

 

[AutomaticApple]

Yeah good luck to them catching zoom and slack on corporate or WhatsApp, wechat, FB messenger, iMessage etc on the private levels.

We will have to wait and see what actually happens.

 

[ericwn]

We will have to wait and see what actually happens.

True that. It will likely become even less relevant but as stated above YMMV, in case you are dead set on using their stuff. Most aren’t.
Like anything Yahoo for most people I met.

 

[deep diver]

We will have to wait and see what actually happens.

As is the case with anything. My very subjective observation has been that once a digital platform such as this, browsers, etc fall far behind it is almost impossible for them to regain any traction. Hangouts has the additional challenge right now of Teams coming into use.
None of this, however, would change the concerns about putting up my images on any of those platforms.

 

[AutomaticApple]

Teams coming into use.

Or Zoom/Discord for that matter!

 

[AlaskaMoose]

We’ve had this conversation on other threads. But just because something can be downloaded without jumping through hoops doesn’t mean it’s legal or right to do so.

Agree with you.

As for search engines, I prefer "duckduckgo."

 

[AutomaticApple]

As for search engines, I prefer "duckduckgo."

Yahoo is powered by Bing. DuckDuckGo is also powered by Bing.

Just wanted to point that out.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

Yahoo is powered by Bing. DuckDuckGo is also powered by Bing.

Just wanted to point that out.

Thanks! I was not aware of that, and was trying to stay away from Google by using DuckDuckGo.

 

[cobra521]

If the Wikipedia article is correct, DuckDuckGo compiles its results from "Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others"

I use DuckDuckGo and like it a lot. About once a month it doesn't find what I'd like it to find so I try the others including Google. Sometimes that gives me some added information, sometimes not...

Tom

 

[AutomaticApple]

If the Wikipedia article is correct, DuckDuckGo compiles its results from "Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others"

Bing powers its search results. Information from other sources is usually just snippets on the side.